material is white zephyr wool, and steel needles of medium size are used. The top and front are

FIG. 12.-DESIGN, IN FULL SIZE, FOR FIG. II.

trimmed with crochet-work. Begin at the sole by casting on a foundation of seventy stitches, then work in rounds, going back and forth as follows: 1st round. Knit plain. 2d round. Seam. Repeat first and second rounds eleven times. In the last of these rounds, on both sides of the middle twelve stitches, cast off twelve stitches each, and on the first and last seventeen stitches work the heel seventeen rounds high, going back and forth, and working always alternately three stitches knit plain and one stitch seamed, taking care that the centre stitch of every three stitches knit plain on the right side comes on the stitch which appears knit plain on this side, and consequently was seamed in the preceding round. Be sides this, on the side nearest the front, in every second following round to the eighth inclusive, narrow one stitch. On the middle twelve stitches knit for the front thirty-six rounds in the design of the heel, but fasten the last stitch of each round to the first vein of the corresponding stitch, cast off, then fasten to the heel. For a row of holes (through which a cord finished with tassels is run) work on all the tassels stitches, always going forward alternately t. t. o. (throw

design, always alternately two stitches knit plain and two seamed, then three rounds knit plain, and finally five rounds composed of alternately one round knit plain, one round seamed; then cast off.

Fold the last eight rounds on the outside, and crochet from the wrong side as follows:

1st round. Always alternately two d. c. (double crochet) on the next stitch of the last round (catching the edge stitch at the same time), two d. c. on the next two stitches of the preceding round; finally one s. 1. (slipstitch) on the first d. c. in this round.

2d round. *

I S. c. (single crochet) on the next stitch in the preceding round, five d. c. on the third following stitch, pass over two stitches, and repeat from *; finally one s. 1. on the first s. c. in this round.

*

3d round. one s. c. on the vein before the next d. c. in the preceding round, four times. alternately two c. h. (chain-stitch), one s. c. on the vein before the next d. c., pass over two stitches, and repeat from *; finally, one s. 1. on the first s. c. in this round.

Next crochet with white split zephyr worsted for a row of points bordering the front, on a foundation of suitable length, as follows: * one s. c. on the next stitch, four c. h., one d. c. on the first of these, pass over two stitches, and repeat from *. On the same stitch (folding down the points of the preceding round on the outside) work a similar round, and sew the points to the front of the boot, taking one stitch through each s. c. The row of points should be long enough to extend from the ankle down over the instep to where the shoe part of the boot commences, the

thread over) and two stitches plain. Next

follows one round seam

and one round knit plain. For the upper part

of the boot, work thirteen rounds in a ribbed

"AWAY for a ride through the forests green,

Away from the city's fierce heat; Away for a breath of the ocean's breeze Where the woods and the waters meet

For a splash in the briny wave,

For the dash of a sail to sea; Away for a brief but happy sojourn

In Atlantic sea city for me!"

In some such fashion my partner Jack was trolde-rol-trolling in a very unbusiness-like manner in the office, while polishing up the brasses on a dilapidated fishing-rod, which seemed nevertheless to have some character about it from the service it had seen.

"Now, Jack," I said, solemnly pausing from drawing my quill through a long list of bad accounts, "I know you're going to keep as sober as an alderman, and I know you're not going to be drawing money recklessly to spend like a goose in a mess of bad, headachy champagne; in fact, I know you're going to keep shy of all that set styled 'jolly fellows,' that it takes such a jolly lot of money to run with."

"Jest so, old man," assented Jack seriously. "For you know as well as I do," I continued, "that if we want to pull through this year we've got to work it out on a line that will take all summer, or, to use less elegant language, my dear fellow, you know that your time and your attention, your industry and energy, will be required almost every day and almost all day during this whole sweltering summer."

And when I had thus finished I again went to scratching at the bad accounts, adding a few additional, perhaps forcible, remarks about some

of Jack's customers-who had failed to come up to time-by way of emphasis to what I had already said.

"Old man, look here," said he, commencing in that sanguine voice and manner so peculiarly his own, "let up on that kind of talk for a minute, and listen. In the first place, I've made arrangements to travel up and down for less money than it would cost me to run out to the Park, and in less time too, all things considered; I can go to and from the hotel where I've arranged to stop in but a little more time than is required to go to the Wissahickon or the Falls and back; and as for the intervening time, which is mostly night-time, the difference is between sleeping under a blanket, enjoying a refreshing and restful slumber, and kicking all night on top of a sheet and fighting the buzzing flies in the morning. Then, in going down and back, I can put in the time running over my memorandum books and the prices current. There are also several good fellows who will be going down and up on the same trains. Oh! you needn't raise your eyebrows in that fashion; these are all members of Young Men's Christian Associations, T. A. B's., salt water drinking societies, and all that. Then, there's the widow too; she's down

"The widow ?"

"Oh! She's stopping with a friend; but le me tell you how I've fixed things. I said to myself, 'Now, Jack, all other things being equal, in the first place choose the cheapest road to travel on.' I found that, of course, in the Narrow-Gauge; so when I had made arrange ments at about one-half the rates of other roads, I said to myself again, Now, Jack, you've narrow-gauged it down in one thing, remember to keep on the same track and gauge it down narrow in all other things; for nothing will please the old man better!'"'

I hardly liked the habit my youthful partner had gotten into, of calling me the "old man." A man of fifty is but little beyond his youth, and it is a great deal more sensible for a young girl or a young widow to pick out a steady, settled man of that age for a husband, than one of your young flyaway, dreaming boys who has not yet been brought down to his level. And the idea of Jack flirting with the widow Ato be his mother. Umph!

who is old enough

Jack kept running up and down regularly, and it had a wonderfully invigorating effect upon his health through the trying hot weather.

On one Saturday morning I concluded I would take a trip myself in the same train-though not with him—that I might observe the better what kind of company he associated with. It was eight o'clock on a bright and beautiful morning that I took the boat at pier 8, Delaware avenue, for Cooper's Point. The boat was crowded with gay excursionists, principally merry Sunday-school scholars, who were in glowing terms questioning and answering each other concerning the bathing, the fishing, the boating, and the glorious prospects of the day before them.

We were soon aboard the train on the other side, whirling along through green meadows luxuriant with growing grain, past numerous small lakelets, over tide-water creeks and through the region of Oakland, with its pretty country-seats dotted about here and there, while the fresh breeze, redolent with the perfume of blooming clover-fields, laved the heated brow through the open windows.

I had almost forgotten to take a look into the smoking-car to see what use Jack was making of his time. Slyly peering through the window from the platform outside, I could discern, through a cloud of smoke, either back or front, every man VOL. XVII.-12

it contained; but Jack was not among the number. What could be the matter? Where had he gone? But it was no matter where he had gone, I concluded, and felt inwardly relieved, as I might now enjoy my trip to the full, with the coast clear from obtrusive observation of my partner or anybody else.

In less than ninety minutes we had reached Pleasantville, having experienced no delays from switching off for passing trains, there being ample stretches of double track along the line. Here an old angler, sitting next to me, began to rig up his line. He was going for flounders, he said, and proposed to commence operations at the railroad bridge, and travel downward to the mouth of the Inlet.

"Why, I can come down here and fish all day, and the very best fishing at that too, for fifty cents the round trip. Don't that beat all ?" said he.

He was about to give me an account of what little fighters and biters snapping-mackerel were, when we arrived at the depot on the main avenue in the city by the sea.

"Carriage, sir! Carriage!" greeted me from a dozen drivers, which first put it into my head that a carriage was the very thing I wanted. About the horses I found myself particular. So, after taking a somewhat critical look at the several teams, I at last selected a pair of spanking bays. "Drive to the hotel HI said, as I entered the carriage.

Just then it occurred to me that I had not been particular about the price of the driver. What was the matter that I should feel so much like a harum-scarum boy again? Was it the salt air or the ocean breeze? For the life of me I couldn't divine, neither did I have any specified object in going to the hotel H, unless I might find Jack there-heaven forbid!—or maybe somebody else I knew.

"No," replied the clerk to my inquiry; “Mr. Soarer is not here; he left suddenly last evening." "Is Mrs. A- stopping at this house ?" "Yes, sir."

"Will you have the kindness to send up my card?"

The card was promptly sent up by the clerk, and I soon had the inestimable pleasure of being seated by the girl I had loved when a boy-a girl no longer now, but a mature and lovely widow;

and how very thankful I felt I was a boy no longer like that harum-scarum Jack, but a steady and stalwart man.

lonely part of the beautiful beach presented me the opportunity to declare that from my early boyhood days she only had been the idol of my

"Hardly so kind as such a very great pleasure to myself, Mrs. A—,” said I; "but I have so little leisure, and-excuse me—I took the very great liberty of hiring a carriage at the door; won't you take a drive about with me and show me somewhat of the place? I am altogether a stranger down here, though the railroad makes it so very near."

And the lovely widow acquiescing, soon had herself in readiness; and beneath the friendly shade of an intervening fleecy cloud we soon were driving along the broad avenues and past scores of beautiful cottages in that queen city on the beach. "I am so utterly lonely without her, dear friend," said she sighing, as we were gazing upon the sublime prospect of sky and ocean.

"Without who?" I asked.

"Why, my ward, Mr. Jones. My poor dear husband's only daughter. How could you ask?" "Is she drowned!" I was about to exclaim, when the widow continued:

"And to think of her running away to be married without even a farewell. Oh, oh! it's too much."

"Do not cry, my dear," I said sympathizingly; "it is no great matter. Young people will do such things. I wish we had done so, too, dear Alicia, twenty years ago."

press it-lift the curtain from the delightful secrecy of what we said? Will it not be enough to tell you that before the sun had reached the meridian at noon the dear Alicia was my own; that, with all the eloquence of which I am possessed, I had persuaded the dear girl to agree to an early day, and that everything seemed propitious?

On returning to the city I found a letter from Jack, dated at Niagara Falls, in which he stated that he had unexpectedly been called away on business of the greatest importance, though what it could be at such a place, save some wild-cat scheme for utilizing its water-power, I could not for the life of me make out. I was glad, however, that he was away, and thus left me free from any impertinent remarks.

A

It was a lovely Fourth of July that Alicia and I were made one. I thought it but due to my partner to apprize him of the event, which I did, after the wedding, through a brief telegram. few days afterward, and while on our bridal tour, I received the following very startling and impertinent, yet, on mature consideration, very satisfactory letter:

"DEAR POP: I am delighted with you, that you should have taken such a very wise step, and one which makes us so near and dear to one another. And then, mon pere, being partners, we can settle amicably, without any litigation over the estate. Mamie sends her love to mamma and papa. Accept my earnest assurances, dear sir, that I shall prove a dutiful son.

"Blessed be the tie that binds
In partnership our kindred minds.'
"Affectionately,

"JACK."

THIS life is but uncertain dreams
From cradle to the skies,

To some a dream of untold woe,
To others paradise;

And yet to all the hours are brief

And speed with rapid flight

From morning's dawn, with brightest glow, To darkness of the night.

Man scarce begins his usefulness

Ere he is past his prime,

And then old age steals swiftly on

To bear him from this clime.

So if we all would be of use

There's little time to spare,

For death soon comes to takes us home To face our Maker there.

TITUS TUTTLE