The Old Mansion House

"I think it's best to give you these hints about my worthy old father to prepare you for any little eccentricities that might otherwise appear absurd. We had passed for some time along the wall of the park and at length the chase stopped at the gate," he writes. An old woman immediately appeared at the gate dressed very much in the antique taste with a neat kircher and stomacher, her silver hair peeping from under a cap of snowy whiteness. She came curtsying forth with many expressions of simple joy at seeing her young master. Her husband, it seems, was up at the house keeping Christmas Eve in the servants hall. They cannot do without him as he