it seemed to me the sleeves were short and ragged at the borders and her shawl which she took off on account of the heat was old and faded � the and dress that i ever saw a woman wear yet she was plump and looked comfortable in body and mind i imagine that she must have had a better dress at home but had come to the theatre and not going to the dress circle considered her ordinary gown good enough for the occasion the other girl seemed as young or younger than herself she was small with a particularly intelligent and pleasant face not handsome perhaps but as good or better than if it were it was with whatever sentiment chanced to be in her mind as quick and a face in its movements as i have ever seen cheerful too and of a sunny though i should think it might be a hasty temper she was dressed in a dark gown i suppose the women call it a good homely dress proper enough by v ic american note books for the fireside but a strange one to appear in at a theatre both these girls appeared to enjoy themselves very much � the large and heavy one in her own mode the smaller her by gestures pointing at the stage and with so vivid a talk of countenance that it was precisely as if she had spoken she was not a and this made the vivacity of her expression the more agreeable her companion on the other hand was so dark that i rather suspected her to have a tinge of african blood there were two men who seemed to have some connection with these girls � one an elderly gray headed personage well stricken in liquor talking loudly and foolishly but good the other a young man sober and doing his best to keep his elder friend quiet the girls seemed to give themselves no uneasiness about the matter both the men wore hats i could not make out whether either of the men were the father of the child though i was inclined to set it down as a family party as the play went on the house became crowded and warm and the poor little baby grew dark red or purple almost with the uncomfortable heat in its small body it must have been accustomed to discomfort and have concluded it to be the condition of mortal life else it never would have remained so quiet perhaps it had been with a sleeping the two young women were not of it but passed it to and fro between them each willingly putting herself to inconvenience for the sake of tending it but i feared it might die in some kind of a fit so hot by v ic american note books was the theatre so purple with heat yet strangely quiet was the child i was glad to hear it cry at last but it did not cry with any great rage and vigor as it should but in a stupid kind of way the smaller of the two girls after a little at once settled the question of by nursing her baby children must be hard to kill however the treatment the two girls and their remained till nearly the close of the play i should like well to know who they are � of what condition in life and whether as members of the class to which they belong my own judgment is that they are so throughout the evening drunken young sailors kept stumbling into and out of the boxes calling to one another from different parts of the house shouting to the and singing the burden of songs it was a scene of life in the rough may y h � a stable opposite the house ran old wooden construction low in three distinct parts the centre being the stable proper where the horses are kept and with a chamber over it for the hay on one side is the department for and carriages on the other the little office where the books are kept in the interior region of the stable everything is dim and � half outlines of sometimes the shadowy aspect of a horse generally a groom is dressing a horse at the stable door with a care and accuracy that leave no part of the animal by the and brush the horse meanwhile evidently enjoying it but sometimes when the more sensitive parts pre by ic american note books touched giving a half playful kick with his hind legs and a little if the men bestowed half as much care on their own personal cleanliness they would be all the better and men they appear to be busy men these yet have a lounging way with them as if were somehow diffused through their natures the apparent head of the establishment is a sensible thoughtful looking large and homely man past the middle age clad rather in gray stooping somewhat and without any about him there is a groom who seems to be a very comfortable kind of personage � a man of forty five or r w says he was one of his but not looking so old not to say fat with a white frock which his goodly bulk almost fills him from neck nearly to ankles on his head he wears a cloth cap of a shape his are turned up an inch or two at bottom and he wears on his feet his hair as may be seen when he takes off his cap to wipe his brow is black and in perfect preservation with not exactly a curl yet a and elastic kind of twist in it his face is fresh colored comfortable sufficiently vivid in expression not at all by his because the man possesses vigor enough to carry it off his bodily health seems perfect so indeed does his 