'I bad a fuDoy, although rather die greeablo exjienence not long ago/ odd »n amatear tentrilrqaiit and tnfigioinn, who waa in grett demand ai a delightful adjunct to all sooial gather* agHj and whoa^ audacity and fan were ii.comptmWe. ' I bad a note from my friend, Mn B , 'Do oome over to-morrow evening,' bhe wrote; 'tba obildren have a par j, and they simplj mutt that joo thould come.' ' Dear ohorubt,' I remarked to myielf j ' of oouret I will go, and I will make it lively for them, too,' 80 on mr war home I |mroha8(d a mtak of a bagt donkoy'rf head, the big j»w of which waa ao arranged that by palling a tiring u emitted a life-like and hor rible bray. On arriving at the house, a*)oai aa boar after tho ttmo designated) L threw off my overoat in the hall, tud, putting on my mask, I ran up «tsirs. I oould dimly iee through tha ittle aperturea loft for the eyei that a, Urge ooQooune of people were ai* ■Binbled in the suite of roomi at tha head oi the stairway, and giving % terrific heehaw I dashed io on mjr bandi and kneee A tort of unex pected bush, a Bouod of itirlled "xolamationtt, made me fcol inst'ne cively that tomethiog wai wrong, and hittiljr palling off the abiurd head, I aorambled to my feot. Horror of horrors 1 I wai among a lot of utterly itrange people, who naturally re garded me as if I had taken leave of my leoiea. At my bewildered appearance a titter ran around ths room, and % prettj young woman, who was evidently the mittroia, oamo forward to receive my rxplana- I 'Ions and apologies. Of oonnn t what tud happened was very evident ; I bad aimplr mistaken the house — a very natural blunder, where there are so many baddiogt exactly elite. The servant who opened (be door thought, of oaurae, that I was an expected gnett, ao that there wai nothing to show ma my mistake until that awful momont when I found myself playing the fool in the midst of an assemblage of stran ijere. 