SPRING O’ THE YEAR.--Always want something sour in the spring o’ the year. Man that brings along “Archangel Bitters” to sell. Some say your gall runs into your liver; more likely your liver runs into your gall. How does anybody know? Dread spring o’ the year. Brings so much work! Nothing to make pies of. Feel lost without pies. Vinegar, mince-pies better’n no mince-pies. Soak your cracker in your vinegar. Chop your raisins. Makes beautiful pies, if you take pains. What _my_ husband likes, and what _my_ husband likes. Children ditto. My Ella B. won’t touch molasses gingerbread. My Tommy’ll eat his weight in it. My Abner could sit up all night to eat sausage-meat. Sight o’ work to make sausage-meat. Sight o’ work to cook calf’s head. Wants “good sweet pork” with it. Calves’ brains make beautiful sauce. (Various recipes omitted.) HENRY T.--Henry T. Rogers. Young man. Began business in the city, and failed. Henry T. always held his head up high. Would have to come down. High-strung all that family were. _They say_ he has bad habits. _They say_ extravagance did it. _They say_ (remainder in whispers). FRED AND MARION.--A pair of lovers. _They say_ they’ve broken off. _They say_ she’s written him a letter. _They say_ he goes with another girl. Dreadful thing to Marion. Probably wear her into a consumption. _They say_ she cries all night. ’Course she’ll send back his presents. Gold ring, worth how much? Some of his presents worn out, Wonder how his father’s property’ll be divided. FENNEL PAYNE AND ADELINE.--Fennel Payne, a young married man, distantly related to the Fennels and the Paynes. Has wife (Adeline) and small child. Adeline stuck up. Always was stuck up. Has strange notions. Both of ’em have strange notions. Spent five dollars for a picture. No great things of a picture. Adeline sits down to read in the daytime. They go to take walks together. Go up on the hill and sit down sometimes. Funny actions for married folks. HOW ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE YOUR DRESS MADE?--(Notes omitted. Reason, unfamiliarity with terms used.) The above is a small part of what was taken down in my note-book. Summary of observations made up to date in Tweenit Village:-- First, that woman works hard physically, works very hard, and with not much respite. Second, that in “carrying on the family” (this is a very common phrase here),--in “carrying on the family,” and in various ways, she displays mental qualities of a high order. Third, that in working so hard, or in as far as she works so hard, merely to gratify the palate, she is spending herself physically for an unworthy end. Fourth, that her mind-power is running to waste in the same direction; also in other directions, as is shown by the not very high tone of her conversation. VI. PEBBLES, OR DIAMONDS?