Beauty and the Beast, and Tales Of Home

more alike, in passing through the stages of babyhood. The ribbon of the older one had been removed, and the nurse would have been distracted, but for Phebe's almost miraculous instinct The former comforted her self with the hope that teething would bring a variation tc the two identical mouths; but nol they teethed as one child. John, after desperate attempts, which always failed in spite of the headaches they gave him, postponed the idea of distinguishing one from the other, until they should be old enough to develop some dissimilarity of speech, or gait, or habit All trouble might have been avoided, had Phebe consented to the least variation in their dresses; but herein she was mildly immovable.