and reproachful that they could not see for themselves the possible dangers in small Rosie’s path. “In place of first,” he explained, “der was de cleanness--she mighd get dirty de garden in! Den,” his eyes grew round at that, “der vas de red-peppers--she might touch dem and aftervards rup her sveet eyes!” but when at the end of a long list of possibilities, he cried out: “Unt dem pees--dem honey pees--what pite mit dere tails--suppose dey make mit dere stingers on her? Ach Gott! Ach Gott!” and, caught in a linguistic tangle, he fell into deep Dutch, from which he emerged breathless and excited. Now that is a condition no Dutchman will endure, so without apology, he trotted off home to soothe himself with the one smoke he allowed himself each day, and then to--rest? Oh, no, there was much work done in that small house by night as well as by day--and mind, there are old neighbors still to support this statement--they used actually to work in the garden by moonlight--not habitually, but often enough, Heaven knows! And what was the object of all this ceaseless labor--of their astonishing economies? Before the coming of their baby girl, they had been little more than two patient, dumb beasts of burden. Born and bred to work--they worked--but dully--without hope or special object--but when God had sent into their lives that laughing, pretty thing, and formed her delicately that she might arouse their tenderness, they had changed. They looked at one another, and each, smiling, saw the other anew. They dreamed for her--they hoped now for her--they prayed now heavy, laborious, loving prayers for her. Truly she had been the “locust and wild honey” that fed them in their wilderness--so now it was for her they labored and were therefore never tired. As the years passed I, who had long since ceased to live in S---- street, often went there to visit my friends who had remained, stopping with them from Saturday till Monday, and these visits kept me still in touch with “Little Knights” and his idol. It seemed strange that Rosie was quite unspoiled by so much adulation. She was a favorite with all the neighbors, was polite and obedient outside her own domain, while within it, an absolute monarch, she ruled with gentlest strength her idolatrous subjects. Derision or contempt shown to them was swiftly and sharply resented by her, while the only time she had to sternly exert her authority was when she made some demand upon the treasury that was for _their_ benefit instead of hers.