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tator of the scene. Stopping her wheel, she, in a voice indicating the reverse of satisfaction, asked what she was about? Mrs Mason took it upon her to reply. "We are going to make your window bright and clean for you, cousin, said she. If you step into my room, and take a look of mine, you will see what a difference there is in it; and this, if these broken panes were mended, would look every bit as well." "It does weel eneugh," returned Mrs MacClarty. "It wants nae cleanin'. It does just weel eneugh. What's the gude o' takin up the lass's time wi' nonsense? she'll break the window too, and the bairns hae' broken eneugh o' it already."
"But if these panes were mended, and the window cleaned, without and within," said Mrs Mason, "you cannot think how much more chearful the kitchen would appear."
"And how long would it bide clean if it were?" said Mrs MacClarty. "It
