: Mignon; or Bootles' Baby by Winter John Strange - England Fiction; Adopted children Fiction; Foundlings Fiction; Soldiers Fiction

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very funny once, you know, Miles," Bootles ended, disdainfully. "But when you've been to the circus half a dozen times you don't see anything to laugh at, somehow."

For grace's sake Miles was obliged to laugh, for every one else roared, except Bootles, who went on speaking very gravely:

Just then officers'-call sounded, and Bootles made a clean bolt of it, leaving his brother officers staring amazedly at one another. The first of them to make a move was Lacy--the first, too, to speak.

"Upon my soul," said he, "Bootles is a devilish fine fellow; and, d-- it all," he added, getting very red, and scarcely drawling, in his intense rage of admiration, "if there were a few more fellows in the world like him, it would be a vewry diffewrent place to what it is."

AS soon as Bootles had a spare moment he made his way to the adjutant's quarters, where he found Mrs. Gray playing with the mysterious baby.

"Oh, is that you, Captain Ferrers?" she exclaimed. "Come and see your waif. She is the dearest little thing. Why, I do believe she knows you."

Bootles whistled to the child, which promptly made a grab at his chain, and when he sat down on the sofa on which it was sprawling, tried very hard to get at the gold badge on his collar. Shoulder badges had not then come in.

"Mrs. Gray," Bootles said, "she's very well dressed, is she not?"

"Oh, very," Mrs. Gray answered, smoothing out the child's skirt so as to display the fine and deep embroidery. "Unusually so. All its clothes are of the finest and most expensive description."

"I thought so; it doesn't look like a common child, eh?"

"Not at all," replied the lady, promptly.

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