Only a few days after that a visitor to the artist's studio was admiring his latest picture, called "The Model Match Girl." "What a strange title?" she said. And he laughed as he replied: "Yes, I gave it that name to please my wife, who brought me the girl. She was really a model in regard to honesty." And then he told the story of the locket, and of the gratitude of the little girl for the ice-cream the kind owner of the locket had given her; and finally the locket was produced, and recognized by the visitor as her own. "It must have fallen from my chain while I talked to the child, and yet the dishonest girl got hold of it, after all, before my little match girl had seen it. How I wish I could find her!" Said the artist in reply: "Well, the girl is coming in a day or two to look at the picture, and I will send her to you. I had no idea that it was you from whom the locket had been stolen. It is strange indeed!" And thus ere very long Madge met her first kind friend, and was led to tell the whole story of her pitiful life and craving for love. And at last, through the lady's continued kindness, little Madge was transferred with many other little children from the crowded, noisy, and unwholesome street which had so long been her home, to the care of those whose business it is to take just such poor orphaned little ones to new and happy homes far off in the country, where warm, kind hearts are willing and anxious to adopt them, and bring them up to useful womanhood. Madge wrote a letter to the lady not long ago, and after telling about her happy times in her new home, she added, "And, oh! Mrs. ----, this dear lady here _kisses_ me good-night always, and it feels just as if I had a mother after all." [Begun in HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 37, July 13.] THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN NAVY. BY BENSON J. LOSSING. CHAPTER VI. Soon after her exciting chase the _Constitution_ sailed from Boston in search of the British frigate _Guerriere_, whose Captain (Dacres) had boastfully enjoined the Americans to remember that she was not the _Little Belt_. On the 19th of August, 1812, the _Constitution_ fell in with her, and Hull skillfully managed to lay his vessel alongside the British frigate, to have a battle at close quarters. The _Guerriere_ opened fire at once; the _Constitution_ kept silent for a while. As the shot from the English frigate began to make havoc on the _Constitution_, Hull's second in command (Lieutenant Morris) asked permission to open fire. "Not yet," quietly said Hull. The request was soon repeated. "Not yet," was the calm reply. A moment afterward, Hull, filled with intense excitement, shouted, "Now, boys, pour it into them!" [Illustration: THE "CONSTITUTION" AND "GUERRIERE."--DRAWN BY J. O. DAVIDSON.]