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HYLAND it was on the north side, between the front and back room. Well, when they went to look for it, there was no little room there; there was only a shallow china-closet. She asked her sisters when the house had been altered and a closet made of the room that used to be there. They both said the house was exactly as it had been built— that they had never made any changes, except to tear down the old wood-shed and build a smaller one. 'Father and mother laughed a good deal over it, and when anything was lost they would always say it must be in the little room, and any exaggerated statement was called "little-roomy." When I was a child I thought that was a regular English phrase, I heard it so often. 'Well, they talked it over, and finally they concluded that my mother had been a very imaginative sort of a child, and had read in some book about such a little room, or perhaps even dreamed it, and then had "made believe," as children do, till she herself had really thought the room was there.' 'Why, of course, that might easily happen.' 'Yes, but you haven't heard the queer part yet; you wait and see if you can explain the rest as easily. 'They staid at the farm two weeks, and then went to New York to live. When I was eight years old my father was killed in the war, and mother was broken-hearted. She never was quite strong afterwards, and that summer we decided to go up to the farm for three months. 'I was a restless sort of a child, and the journey seemed very long to me; and finally, to pass the time, mamma told me the story of the little room, and how it was all in her own imagination, and