An Apt Pupil

1 isughed once, surely, when human-i j ity ehoiüd, perhaps, have kept me qulet ; bnt Ukmi there wexe ;i seore of otherS lauglieJ wifli me, bo the barden oí Mío fanlt was divided. Ou oiiv way from Conway to Center Harbor, N. Tl., by stage, we stopped bej foie a small cottage on the outekirt of Tanrwortb, from whioh ■ driver k fcwo trunks and two blooming damsels. j Or, ons of them, the yonnger, blootned] wltile, in trath, the other seeméd pre ïmihirely saatnring. Prom their oonveri sation, alter we had atarted on our wiiy agaia, we disoovered that eider girl's name was Eliza, and the other's, Busanj Eh'za had fcraveled before. 8he knew tha world. SIk had worked in the milis ut Great Fallw, and had cut her eye-teeth) Siman had neTer traveled untii now, and I was a unsophitioated as an infaat. Slu1 was lettving tome for the ürst time to tní_Jjer fortuné in the great mifls, an4 Eliza Avn-s her gside and proteotor. Ab the stage approached Center Harbor, whero we were to take dinner beforo crosang the lake, Eliza became very c;unest in instracting her oompanion as (o liow slie shonld behave, especiaUy at the table ; and as we pulled up bofore the broad piuzza of the Senter House, she con'clnclei1 her injunotíona witli : " Now mind, 8usan,and watch me. Do juut iH I do, and uil will be right. " Seated at tho hotel table the polito came flrst to Eliza. " líoast beef and ronst tnrkey," said he. " Turki'.v, if yon jilease-," sí'ud Eliza. " Wlmt part of the iowl wonld yoü like?" J " It is perfectly imniatorial." Next lic came to Susan. " Rouwt beef and roast turkey. " " Tnrkey, il' yon pleasew" "What part do yon prefer '.' "1 think," anawered Susan, with a oonfldent smile, " that I willtake a pit et of the immaterial, too." Pcrhaps yon can roo whore tho laiiKh