Of course she accepted Mr. Bartlett's escort to the hotel when the rain was over, and he was presented to the agonised mother, who hailed him as a deliverer of her daughter from untold dangers, and privately remarked, afterward, to the latter: "Upon my word, a very nice young man, my dear!" Dick's commendation was no less emphatic though differently expressed: "A good fellow! well made in the shoulders and flanks: fine action, but wants a little training!" By this time, ladies, you have probably guessed the conclusion. My story would neither be agreeable nor true (I am relating facts) if they were not married, and did not have two children, and live happy ever after. Married they were, in the course of time, and happy they also are, for I visit them now and then. One thing I had nearly forgotten. When Mrs. Bartlett chooses to tease her husband in that playful way so delightful to married lovers, she invariably calls him "Professor Hurlbut," while he retorts with "Miss Lawrence, of South Carolina." Moreover, in Mrs. B.'s confidential little boudoir, over her work-stand, hangs a neatly-framed card, whereon you may read: PROFESSOR HURLBUT, Chiropodist To her Majesty Queen Victoria, and the Nobility of Great Britain. "MR. DOOLEY ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENT" By F. P. DUNNE Copyright 1907 by H. H. McClure & Co. "Well, sir," said Mr. Dooley, "I see that some school-teachers down East have been petitioning to be allowed to slug th' young." "How's that?" asked Mr. Hennessy.