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"Flavia, ood name,

Is rather careless of her sister's fame!

Her superfluity the poor supplies,

But if she touch a character it dies"--Cowper

It was characteristic of Marthy Perkins and her continual pursuit of

pleasure, that she should wade through snowdrifts to Squire Bartlett's

and ask for a lift in his sleigh The Squire's faiven to one of the neighbor's, and Marthy was as

deter as a debutante

She came in, covered with snow, hooded, shawled and coated till she

rese armchair for her near

the fire, and Marshy sat down, but not without disdaining Anna's offers

to remove her wraps She sniffed at Anna--no other ill express

it--and savagely clutched her big old-fashioned muff when Anna would

have taken it froled , whistling, laughing, on their way to the party The church

choir, snugly installed in "Doc" Wiggins' sleigh, stopped at the

Squire's to "thaw out," and try a step or two; Rube Whipple, the town

constable, giving the"