his mother you can take our carriage and let alfred drive you and so follow along after our party only in that case you would not have any company you would be in a carriage alone never mind that said i should like that i would put the top back and then i could see all around i should have a grand ride i ll go i wish had not gone to bed she could have gone with me no replied his mother is not well to night she has got cold and she went to bed early on that account but she will be very glad to have you go and see her so went into s room as soon as he opened the door pushed aside the curtains and said � ah is that you i am very glad that yon have come in paris j� i to at i can t stay bat a little while said i am going to take a ride with mother are yon going with mother asked not in the carriage with her replied bat i am going in the same party i am going to have a carriage all to myself no said in a tone don t go away stay here with me please i am all alone and have not any body to me but you will go to sleep pretty soon said no replied i am not sleepy the least in the world see here opened her eyes very wide and looked fall in the face by way of that she was not sleepy felt very much perplexed when he pictured to himself in imagination the idea of whirled rapidly through the on such a pleasant summer evening in a carriage which he should have all to himself with the top down so that he could see every thing au around him and of the brilliant windows of the shops the multitudes of ladies and gentlemen taking their coffee at the little round tables on the in front of the the crowds of people coming and going and the s and looking at and carriages the streets the view was so that it was very hard for him to give np the promised pleasure he however determined to do it so he said � well stay i will go out and tell mother that i am not going to ride and then i will come back for the first half hour after mrs holiday went away was occupied with in looking over some very pretty french picture books which mrs holiday had bought for her that day to amuse her because she was sick had looked them all over before but now that had come it gave her pleasure to look them over again and talk about them with him sat up in the bed leaning back against the pillows and and sat in a large and very comfortable arm chair which he had brought up for this purpose to the bedside the books lay on a monstrous square pillow of down half as large as the bed itself which according to the french fashion is always placed on the top of the bed and would take the books one at a time and look them over talking about the pictures and showing the prettiest ones to each other thus the time passed very pleasantly at length however having looked over all the books drew in the of herself down into tho bed and began to ask where he had been that day i have been with uncle george said he said that he was going about to see a great many different places and that i might go with him if i chose though he supposed that most of them were places that i should not care to see but i did i liked to see them all what places did you go to asked why first we went to see the i did not know before that there were so many uncle george says that paris is one of the greatest places in the world only they make things by hand in private shops and not in great by machinery uncle george says there must be as much as eight or ten square miles of these shops in paris they are piled up to six or eight stories high some of the streets look like of cliffs facing each other such as wo see at some places on the sea shore what do they make in the shops asked all sorts of curious and beautiful things they have specimens of the things that they make up put up like pictures in a frame in little glass cases on the wall next the street we walked along through several streets and looked s narrative the of artificial flowers at these specimens there were and and watches and gold and silver chains and beautiful and and of all kinds and ribbons and opera glasses and dressing cases and every thing you can think of yes said i have seen all such things in the shop windows in the royal and in the ah those are the shops where they sell the things said but these shops that uncle george and i went to see are where they make them we went to one place where they were making artificial flowers and such beautiful things you never saw the rooms were full of girls all making artificial flowers why did not you bring me home some of them asked i don t know replied i did not think to ask if i could buy any of them then after we had gone about in the till we had seen enough we went to the to see the paintings though on the way we stopped to see a pronounced the word very much as if it bad been crash a crash exclaimed did a building tumble down in a in 