Jest Frank Reed's his _real_ name--though Boys all calls him "Ringworm Frank," 'Cause he allus _runs round_ so.-- No man can't tell where to bank _Frank_'ll be, Next you see Er _hear_ of him!--Drat his melts!-- That man's allus _somers else_! We're old pards.--But Frank he jest _Can't_ stay still!--Wuz _prosper'n here_, But lit out on furder West Somers on a ranch, last year: Never heard Nary a word _How_ he liked it, tel to-day, Got this card, reads thisaway:-- "Dad-burn climate out here makes Me homesick all Winter long, And when Springtime _comes_, it takes Two pee-wees to sing one song,-- One sings '_pee_' And the other one '_wee_!' Stay right where you air, old pard.-- Wisht _I_ wuz this postal-card!" THE COLONEL'S CLOTHES BY CAROLINE HOWARD GILMAN Every man has some peculiar taste or preference, and, I think, though papa dressed with great elegance, his was a decided love of his old clothes; his garments, like his friends, became dearer to him from their wear and tear in his service, and they were deposited successively in his dressing-room, though mamma thought them quite unfit for him. He averred that he required his old hunting-suits for accidents; his summer jackets and vests, though faded, were the coolest in the world; his worm-eaten but warm _roquelaure_ was admirable for riding about the fields, etc. In vain mamma represented the economy of cutting up some for the boys, and giving others to the servants; he would not consent, nor part with articles in which he said he felt at home. Often did mamma remonstrate against the dressing-room's looking like a haberdasher's shop; often did she take down a coat, hold it up to the light, and show him perforations that would have honored New Orleans or Waterloo; often, while Chloe was flogging the pantaloons, which ungallantly kicked in return, did she declare that it was a sin and a shame for her master to have such things in the house; still the anti-cherubic shapes accumulated on the nails and hooks, and were even considered as of sufficient importance to be preserved from the fire at the burning of Roseland.