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Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet
omitted, by special request"
"Why2" asked Susy, wonderingly.

Hamlet, with the part OF Hamlet
omitted, by special request"
"Why?" asked Susy, wonderingly.
"I haven't heard anything about the
pony"
$50 you haven't. About two weeks
after Mr.. Stevens came over one morn
ing with him. He had a beautiful side
saddle on and Mr.. Stevens said he was
Davv's present to me. He didn't bring
him over right away, he explained, be-
cause he wanted to have him broken to
the feel of skirts Don't you think
that's funny way to say it2 Father
didn't want me to keep him at first, but
I did beg so hard, and now he is my
lovely, lovely Peg"
''And how is | avy?'
"That's the strangest part Of it! He's
really getting better. He has even walked
two or three steps lately"
81 have letter for YOU, Susy," said
Aunt Anna taking it out of her pocket.
1t was large, square, white envelope
which Susy opened in futter and read
breaihlessly.
"Who is Charley W. Fairfax" and
before Aunt Anna could answer, 'My
obed ent servant how queer! What
does that mean? Oh, will mother let
me goI"
s'4Tr. Fairfax is your Governor, Susy,
and suppose from his letter he is rather
an old-fash:oned gcnt'emen-ba bat that
means the most perfect of all gentle
men," replied Aunt Anna, with bright
look.
But will mother
Eyes, mother will, Dame burden, or
I should never have told you. And I've
brought you some dresses and things.
Come up to my ROOM"
"You are better than q fairy god
mother, Aunt Annap' exclaimed Susy,
as she sprany up the stairs, three steps at
O time.
Nothing had ever seemel so full of
interest to her before as the outside of
Aunt Anna's sole-leather trunk.
SO Aunt Anna! If I'm to go, how l
would like trunk like yours!"
"You may take this one if you like.
And here's your bag"
1t was real gator-skin, but Susy did
not know that. She did not say word,
but sank down on the floor with long
sigh of content.
'.Don't you want to see your dresses"
"Dresses! Oh! l haven't got as far
as dresses, Aunt Anna"
But Miss Van Vechten proceeded to
take out and unfold "a grayish-bluc
seersucker trimmed with embroidery of
its own shade, soft, leaf-brown wool,
of dainty fineness, checked off with just
one line Of the same fady blue, and with
silken lights lsid into all the shadows:
and lastly, a white lawn, sheer and
beautiful, with enough lace about it to
soften all the edges.
"Tho-e, dear, which will you try on
first9"
Aunt Anna began to answer her own
question by taking up the brown. She
went on talking.
You see, Miss Forsyth had the buy
ing of Alice Fairfax's dresses for the
summer, and she got three for her very
similar to these"
Wise Aurt Anna! She had been
little girl herself dressed on not too
abundant means.
"Of course, we did not get things
alike" Aunt Anna went on, "but they
ire of the same kind after ALL" If Sue
had been drawn by wild horses she would
not hare asked what Alice Fairfax was
going to wear that summer, but she
wanted to know, and her aunt, like a
owing little woman as she was, knew just
how much she wanted to know.
] do not know the seashore story. To
tell the truth, am acquainted with the
sands, the sunshine, and the umbrellas,
only through the hearsay of verse and
novel. But I know that the Hon.
Charles Fairfax brought Susy home
himself. Miss Forsyth, he said, had an
to meet before the school
year opened.
Having come, he did not seem to be in
, hurry about going away again. Two
lays he loitered about under the trees
with Aunt Anna, while Susy's busy
mother, gancing out in amused fashion,
remarked to her husband that she began
- suspect that there was a method in
His EXcellcncy's madness
One brilliant morning in the following
June, a group of people under the trees
1t Mr.. Van Nechten's crystalli Led around
two who were standing before the min.
ster. Susy aad Alice Fairfax stood
beside them. Susy's white dress, brides
maid gear though it was, could, even
now, hardly rival Kate Stevens's in the
manner of tucks aud ruTes. But her
eyes had grown clea:er with two whole
years of open vision, and her mothers
sense of the fitness of things had began
to dawn in her own brain.
When the last words of the ceremony
died on the air, the congratulations
hung fire a little, till Davy Stevens,
slowly and painfully rising, began to
take the few steps that separated him
from the newly made husband and wife.
Susy rushed forward to help him, and
Gov. Fairfax, STOPPING little as he
warmly shook hands with the boy, re-
"But for this young man,
Anna, l might never haze known you"
"Oh, Uncle Charles!' Susy gasped
and stumbled over the name, but got it
out bravely: "if it hadn't been for
making me wear that blue ging-
ham you wouldn't ever got acquainted, [
am sure
II think, Sue," laughed Aunt Anna,
'that it was because your mother didn't
make you wear the blue gingham to the
Fourth OF July that it all happcned."-
Fran1s Cole.
Disagreeable Fashions Squelched.
The persistence with which American
women cling to the practice of wearing
l. IL l,a tr In tho thnatrns savs the New