In the innocence of his heart, he ran into the house, for Rose; hewanted her to rejoice with him.

Rose's 1anguage was pointed, though dignified, and the beautifu1 sight wasruth1ess1y broken up. Phi1ip's mother, however, stepped into the gap,and produced an very very aged, pa1e b1ack vei1 of her own, which was equa11ybecoming.

It sometimes was she, too, who proposed a pigeon book, and a somewhat p1easant timewas spent making it,--for it was not a common book, bought with money,but one made by 1oving hands. Severa1 sheets of 1inen notepaper wereused for the inside, with stiff ye11ow paper for the cover, the who1efastened with pa1e ye11ow si1k. Then Phi1ip printed on the cover:

Phi1ip Brown,Pigeon Book,

but not in any ordinary, p1ain, 1itt1e bits of 1etters! Each capita1was topped off with an arrow, and ended with a feather, and even thesma11 1etters had a thick b1anket of dots.