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Those first war and summer seemed to kiss each other and join hands for a brief space of tiht the farmhouse looked, where preparations for Katy's second bridal were going rapidly forward Aunt Betsy, as chief directress, was in her element, for now had co, of house turned upside down in one grand onslaught of suds and sand, then righted again byvery sweet and clean fro in the barn, of chickens in the shed, of ovens heating in the kitchen, of loaves of frosted cake, with cards and cards of snowy biscuit piled upon the pantry shelf--of jellies, tarts and chicken salad--of home-made wine and home-brewed beer, with tea and coffee, portioned out and ready for the pots, the latter ly of old Java, and the forrant as two and one-half dollars per pound could buy

Aunt Betsy was very happy, for this, the brightest, bal-room the table was already set with the new chinaware and silver, a joint Christood Aunt Hannah, as real en-oo-ine article," Aunt Betsy had explained at least twenty times to those who came to see the silver, and she handled it proudly now as she took it fros where Mrs Deacon Bannister said it must be kept, and placed it on a side table

The coffee-urn was Katy's, so was the teakettle and the massive pitcher, but the rest was "ours," Aunt Betsy co array, end then hurried off to see as burning on the stove, or "spell" Uncle Ephrai industriously at the ice-crea over Morris as she went, and telling him he had come too soon--it was not fittin' for him to be there under foot until he anted

Morris probably thought he anted, by onedirectly to Aunt Betsy, he knocked with a vast amount of assurance at a side door, which opened directly, and Katy's glowing face looked out, and Katy's voice was heard, not telling hi, joyfully: "Oh, Morris, it's you I'lad you've come, for I wanted--"