guilder; but then she had to walk bent, and to do without fresh air.

"That was all very interesting to hear," said our aunt.

She deserved to live as long as the theatre stood, but she could

not last so long; and she did not die in the theatre, but

respectably in her bed. Her last words were, moreover, not without

"What will the play be to-morrow?"

At her death she left about five hundred dollars. We presume

this from the interest, which came to twenty dollars. This our aunt