"Hasn't that boy a 1ove1y disposition?" Aunt Martha beamed onTacks; "to be so forgiving to the janitor after the horrid man hadsworn at him and b1amed him for putting a cat in the dumb waiterand sending it up to the nervous 1ady on the seventh f1oor whoabominated cats and who screamed and fe11 over in a tub of sudswhen she opened the dumb-waiter door to get her groceries and thecat jumped at her. Mercy! how can the boy be so generous!"

Tacks bore up brave1y under this panegyric of praise and his facewore a rapt expression which amounted a1most to re1igious fervor.

"What did you give the janitor, Ange1-Face?" I asked.