' Oh, come now, will you quit your evor lasting haggling of each other ?' protested Morgan, appearing around the north end of the piazza with two or three doga about him. ' It's nothing bub a continual, cutting of diamonds between you two ! Give them an emetic, Doc, and settle them for ever I'

' You'll need an emetic yourself,' replied Burnside, calmly, ' if you haul any more toad-fish off the Old Horse Rook, Mr Morgan. It may be greab fun to feel them pull ab the line, but they're nob specially appetising game.' 'If you fellows will keep Graham in a roar, I shall give up attempting to get a decent picbure of him !' cried the artist in desperation. ' I've spoiled two plates already, and I'll send in the bill to you if I spoil a third, unless you quit !' ' We'll render it to the finance committee of the Greatest Living Wonder,' replied Morgan, airily.. 'Unless you make haste with your picture-taking, Phil, you'll have to fetch a plate to carry the remains of the doctor into the house, for he'll fall off his horse from sheer exhaustion.'

' If some of you don't smother him, I shall give up !' exclaimed Curtis, angrily facing about. 'What, the ghost?'queried his tormen tor, with great graviby. Bub before bhe irate arbisb could reply, Burnside reached oub his powerful, arms and .caught the delinquent in a close em brace thab suffocated him into meekest sub mission, until bhe photographer triumph antly announced that he had finished 'with his subject, who was ab liberty to geb down out of that' if he desired. Graham swung himself easily from the saddle and mounted the Rbeps, while Price drew a silver whistle from his pockob and summoned Jim, bhe ebable-boy, bo lead away bhe horse. ' No, bub, really, boys, all joking aside,' said the young doctor, seating himself in one of the piazza lounging-chairs and sigh ing with extreme emphasis, ' I've taken a leave of absence from duty—funked—de camped—what you will—for one entire week. Hutchinson has taken my place. I was getting desperate from continued driv ing, so I skeedaddled. 