Effecting A Compromise

"For goodness sake, Mary," asked the youuü lady's mother at breakfast, "what was the matter with you and Harry in the parlor last night?" "Why, mamma? Wbat?" inquired the daughter demurely. "Why, you rowed and quarreled for lialf an hour like a pair of mauiaes. " ' Ohl" she replied, renieinbering tbe circumstauee, "Harry wauted me to take the big chair, and I wanted him to take it be cause he was company, you know." "Well, what did you quarrel about?" "We didn't quarrel, mamma, only he in sistedthatl should takeit, andl wouldu'l." "How did you settle it flnally?" "Well, mamma, we - we - we