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In the stage the day he started for Philadelphia, Willia read

over his Martha's ood husbands: ten yards of crash; a pitcher for sorghum; samples

of yarn; an ounce of sachet-powder, and so forth

"Nohat on earth does she want sachet-powder for?" he reflected

But he did not reflect long; it suddenly caiven hi for her He could go, when he was in

Philadelphia, and call on her brother "How pleased she'll be!" he

said to hiave no ht to sachet-powders He decided that he would turn up at Mr

Pryor's house at six o'clock, and Pryor would ask him to supper It

would save time to do that, and he needed to save time, for this one

day in Philadelphia was to be very busy He had those errands for

Martha, and two medical appointht a good deal about his clothes and discovered

that he was very shabby He wished he had asked Mrs Richie for her

brother's address; it took so long to look it up in the Directory

Happily, the first naiven up the search He could not have called on all the