"I can't help thinking it awfully strange that you should benotified of their coming by Mr. Jefferson, and in such peculiarlanguage," she said, after a pause.

"Didn't I tell you Bunch is a low comedian," I exclaimed, weakly."Besides, he knows them quite well. Aunt Fanny is quite fond ofBunch."

"Aunt Fanny," she repeated, dropping a tin pan to the floor with acrash; "I thought you said her name was Eliza?"