Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-20

You mustn't think from what I've told you of Jo-Jo that she's just g. care
 less, hsrun1- -scarurn girl. Strangers often get thRt impression and mis- i judge her.
 If Jo makes up her mind to do 6 i duty she does it. whether she wants tC or not. She may grumble a good deal and you'd think to hear her talk thai 1 she was terribly abused, if you didn'1
 understand that she was merely letting off steam, and would soon set about 1 the very things you'd heard her de- claring she positively would not do.
 Her mother and Isabel impose on hel 1 a good deal; and it makes me angry sometimes, for Jos always giving uI good times to stay at home with hel mother because Isabel wants to gc out. And they take it as a matter o1 i course.
 One Sunday afternoon Jo and l were out in the woods with Miss Post CT, and we sat down by the brook te
 rest. There were tiny rays of sun 1 light dancing between the leaves, an6 as Jo looked up to speak the light fel right across her head, making her hail shine like gold.
 Keep sitll a minute, Jo.'' I cried Look, Miss Foster, she has a halo like the one around the saints in ole pictures"
 ''Why, I have a halo. Didn't you know it?" Jo replied. T don't veal it every day, but today there was nc
 dust to tarnish it nor wind to blow il
 off, so I'm wearing it in honor of Miss 1 Foster. I should think you would have noticed 1t before.''
 So you have on your halo when you are particularly good, Miss Foster observed. I've noticed the effect oi it, if not the halo itself Wear it oft en Jo, like it.
 q can't tell, Miss Foster 10 an swered. AS I said. I'm careful of it and don't want to tarnish it too quick
 ly. And in warm weather it's awfully hot and heavy
 After that Miss Foster used to pre- tend to( look for the halo when she l thought Jo needed scolding. One day when Jo really had tried to behave ! but everything had gone wrong she
 told Miss Foster she was wearing it but it was knocked way over one ear Jo really was in earnest, however and she kept on trying to remember
 her halo. till just before Christmas
 1 told her it must shine brightly enough for Miss Brown, our Latin teacher, tC see it.
 One morning the week before vaca- tion, Jo came to school without the | halo. She said she started with it on but the wind blew 1t into the street ant
 she had to chase it so far she wa: almost late for school. Her eye: sparl1led with mischief that day, ant
 she and Polly did cut up didn't pay
 much attention, for I was having i troubles of my own.
 Miss Brown was so cranky fel that she couldn't be thinking O Peace on earth, good will to mem She gave me zero in Latin. I wa!
 wrathy, for I knew it wasn't fair. had studied the lesson, but I had a colo and such a splitting headache couldn't tell one word from another.
 At recess I went home and went tt
 bed, and late in the afternoon Jo came i in to see me.
 She said after I left Miss Browr
 landed on her for passing notes to Amy
 Welles. They were Jos notes on th' English lesson that Miss Foster tolt
 her to let Amy take after she go
 through with them. Jo told Mis-. i Brown, but she wouldn't believe it. T just stated the fact, "said Jo
 "She interrupted me. She wouldn't listen to excuses! But by that time I was so mad I wouldn't make any" The next day Jo had new tale. She
 had put away her halo forever. I
 didn't seem to do a bit of good to wear