The Boy's In Bed

TV hoever has lifted the curtains of boy's alcoves, soon after their inmates have gone to bed, and has looked lovingly in, has seen a prstty sight. Generalíy their faoes are lying most restfully, with hand under cheek, and in many cases look strangely younger than when awake, and often very infantile, as if 6ome trick of older expression, which they had been taught to wear by day, had been dropped the moment the young ambitious will had lost control. The lids lie shut over bright, busy eyes ; the air is gently and evenly fanned by coming and going breaths ; there is a little crook ed mound in the bed ; along the bed's foot, or on a chair beside, are the day clothes, sometimes neatly folded, soinetiiues huddled oif ia a hurry ; buiging with bulls, or, in the lesser fellows, marbles, stained with the earth of many fields where woodchuck have been trapped, or pérhaps torn with the roughness of trees on which squirrels have been sought ; perhaps wet and mired with the smooth black or gray mud from marshes, or the oozy banks of streams, where muskrats have been tracked. Under the bed's foot lies the shoes - one on its side - with the gray and white socks, now creased and soiled, thrown across them ; and there, in their little cells, squared in the great mass of night, heedles9 how the earth whirls away with thetn orlow the world goes, who is thinking of them or what „is doing at home, the busiest people in the world are resting for the