*zero space, in which it was thought
nothing could travel--so that old Earth
might reach out to her sister planets.

He planned to call the boy Pemberton
after his own father.

Likewise the mother of the maiden in
green now seated upon the tool-box had
longed for a daughter and aspired to
name her Rose, in tender memory of a
dear college chum, a flower no longer
blooming upon earth.

And when the little black-haired mite
in due time came, when she opened upon
her father eyes blue as the empyrean he
hoped to conquer, he had cried out of a
core of transport lurking in the very heart
of disappointment: "Oh! by Jove, I
can't quite give up my dream: let's name
her Pemrose. If she had been a boy,
I'd have called her Pem."

The young mother blissfully agreed--and
did not live long to call her anything.

Grown to girlhood, the sprite of the
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