Stopping the leak

"THERE'S a leak somewhere!" was the emphatic exclamation of Mrs. Mercy Lovell. "I, of course, have my own opinion where it is, but that's neither here nor there. 'Tisn't my way...

The table was spread in the kitchen with cold ham, spring chicken, an egg omelet, and hot coffee. And around it sat cook, Ann, Tom, and a hugely-whiskered stranger, partaking of...

AUNT MERCY stealthily wiped a tear from her eye, and finding she had no voice to answer, was hastening from the room, when a sweet voice in the hall arrested her steps.

IN a day or two, Lily was entirely restored to health. The story of Aunt Mercy had made a deep impression on her mind, causing a shade of thought to rest on her fair features. T...

LET me introduce you, dear reader, to a tall, stalwart man just opening the gate leading through a potato-patch to an humble cottage. This is his home, and through the open wind...

AS I have before said, Mr. Allen was naturally mirthful; and the change in his temperament would have cast a gloom over all the family, had it not been for Lizzie, whose merry f...

"Did papa tell you? I have been waiting so impatiently to ask you about it! To think of mamma being willing to start off in such a hurry, and then to sell the house and furnitur...

THEY parted, Mrs. Lovell with rather more caution than usual descending the stairs to the basement, while her nephew returned carelessly to the parlor. The kitchen was vacant, b...

THE winter had passed; and the first breath of spring found our family at the hut moving to the neat cottage on Mr. Burrel's grounds. Finding his new gardener had boasted of ski...

"I WONDER what is the reason some folks are always poor," muttered Robert Carter, a neighbor of the Allens, and also employed by Mr. Burrel on the farm. "I work as hard as anybo...

AND now, dear reader, I will invite you to accompany me to a tasteful cottage in the suburbs of the great commercial city in which the early scenes of our story are laid.

EARLY in the winter John Allen came to the city, and after some discussion, it was concluded to give him a home at the cottage, and thus shield him from some of the many temptat...

IT was midsummer of the next year when Aunt Mercy returned for a visit to her old home, and Lily with the baby accompanied her. The little fellow was teething, and the old lady...

This question was put by Robert Carter, as he saw Betsey, mounted on a chair, dropping some pieces of silver coin into an old earthen teapot which stood on the upper shelf of th...

LETTERS from Lizzie, who had returned to N— for another year, informed her father that Mr. Greenough had cleared the meadow running for half a mile along by the river, and had p...

EARLY the following morning, Mr. Allen walked up the winding avenue which his successor had laid out in front of the house, and gazed with delight at the clusters of shade trees...

WE must now pass over three years in the history of our friends. Harry Everett is four years old, a bright, beautiful boy, of whom any mother might be proud. Words fail me when...

MRS. LOVELL was not relieved from her sudden attack till the third day after her seizure, during which time her nephew did not leave her. Mrs. Allen and her daughter were also u...