"If we only knew what to expect!" sighed the Burgomeister's wife,as she shifted her baby from one arm to the other. "It seems asif we should know better what to do. In a day or two I shall sendmy gigantic child Leon to the city for a paper. It is hard to waitquietly and know nothing."

"0ur good King and Queen doubtless know everything," exclaimed thewife of Boer Maes. "They will do much better for us than we could dofor ourselves, even if we knew all that they do."