The coarser the soap, the brighter and bigger the bubble will be. A set of common clay pipes can have place on one of the shelves, long ones giving better bubbles than those with short handles. Dissolve the soap in warm water till it is a mass of suds, and, if you want your bubble to last, never throw it off on a bare floor or table, but always on carpet, or something of rough woollen. Often you can have a whole flock of the lovely balls dancing about as if alive; and the big people are very likely to want to borrow a pipe "just for a moment." If no pipe is to be had, a very large single bubble can be blown by covering the hands with soapsuds and putting them together so as to make a cup open a little at the bottom. Hold your mouth about a foot from your hands, and blow steadily and strongly. A bubble twice as big as your head can often be made, but it bursts the moment it touches the floor. Mr. Beard describes smoke-bubbles, which every Southern child knows all about. In the old plantation days the old negroes who sat in the sun or by the fire smoked corn-cob pipes. The children would come with a bowl of soapsuds, start a bubble, and then hand the pipe to "Uncle Cassius," who had, in the mean time, taken a long pull at his corn-cob, and filled his mouth with smoke. Some of them, as the smoke is slowly blown into them, will look like lovely opals. Others will seem like balls of milk-white china, and will roll slowly over the floor as if heavy, like china. If " the dog chases and catches one of these bubbles, how the children laugh to see the astonished and injured look upon his face! and what fun it is to see him sneeze, and rub his nose with his paw! Still better fun is to have two or three lively kittens in the room. They will jump after them, roll over and over, and never stop being surprised at not finding them in their paws."