The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-02-23


~ coasting was splendid,
and Betty "hated to be absent
when the little Counsel Calendar said
February 49, and one could be do
ing such lovely, jolly things as this.
must tell you just what it was.
When Betty had been counting up
her Valentine money, and getting
help of all the older folks as she tried
to reckon ow many it would buy and
how much she should pay for each
one, and when she was going about
with doleful quicker under her
brown bangs because, count and con-
trive as they might, some of those
she had put down on her list must be
left out, Cousin Fay Adams had said
to her,
"Why don't you make them your
self, Bettv7 Then you can send all
you've a mind to do. And they're
ever SO much nicer, you know"
"But ! can't wiile verses, nor paint,
nor draw, nor-nor anythingF
Cousin Fay laughed.
"Come into my room after lunch,
and we'll see about it," said she.
So by-and- by Betty tapped at her
door, and, being hidden to come in,
found Miss Fay at her writing-table,
with number Of loose SHE cts of
drawing paper before her, with lit
tie box of laints and two or three
brushes.
See, Betty" she said. "This is
the sort of Valentine I meant. /
happened 10 have all these little
sketches made once-Kate Greena-
way figures, they call them-and you
can have them, if you like, for your
Valentines. Some of them you can
touch up with the paints, you know,
but some are prettier just a. they are.
You can print the name of the little
friend you want to sent it to in the
corner, wi, h your own, if you like
you print 10 nicely. And under
some of them you can put these little
verses I've picked out. Here's one
I've done to show you. Do you like
its"
81 guess l dol' said Betty sits
just splendid Anybody'd like to
get one of these. Thank you lots
and lots. Cousin Fay, for telling me,
and for the pictures and paints and
all. | never thought of anything
like that"
Cousin Fay laughed, and helped
her carry the sketches and paints
down to the library, where, in her own
corner. she was soon busy with her
Valentines.
She had worked on them two long
afternoons, besides the whole of that
morning, and pile of them now lay
in her ON drawer in the secretary,
with the dainty envelopes beside
them that Cousin Fay had promised
to address for her. Betty's list lay
with them, but two or three of the
drawings remained. She took up one
of them and looked at it.
That's the prettiest of all, just as
it is. If twas colored 'twould be
homeiy. with that girl STOPPING so,
sideways. / declare, it looks like
Milly Fdrr. It's just the way she
twists herself round sometimes when
she walks. I've great mind to color
it, and put few more lines in, so
she'd notice the hitch, and send it to
her. with her name under it, in big
letters. Hateful thingl l ought to
do something to pay her for stepping
in ahead OF me in our history class.
was always ahead before. / guess
this would take her down "a little.
Everyhody's so sweet to her. Idon't
s'pose SHE knows how she does look
to folks. She'd find out now, if she
got thi-l j won't put my name to it
not but that I'd just as lief-but,"
with little shame at doing such a
thing anu then concealing it-"but |