“I don’t know how it is,” said Mrs. Milvey, “and I am sure you don’t, Frank, but the clergy and their wives seem to cause swelled faces. Whenever I take notice of a child in the school, it seems to me as if its face swelled instantly . Frank never makes acquaintance with a new old woman, but she gets the face-ache. And another thing is, we do make the poor children sniff so. I don’t know how we do it, and I should be so glad not to; but the more we take notice of them, the more