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ELMWOOD, June 15, 18--

I have been out a, and

transplanting, and then stopping a little to rest Such perfect

successes as my roses are this year, while my white lilies are the

wonder of the town, and yettoat the Towers carounds while I was at work, "just to see and ad that there was no place like Elmwood in all the town of

Cuylerville I know that, and Guy and I have been so happy here, and I

loved him so much, and never dreamed as in store for me until it

came so suddenly and seeet married, when he has lived to be thirty years

old, without a care of any kind, and with e his taste for books, and pictures, and travel, and is respected

by everybody, looked up to as the first man in town, and petted and

cared for by me as few brothers have ever been petted and cared for;

why, I say, did he want a change, and, if he must be married, why need

he take a child of sixteen, whom he has only known since Christmas, and

whose sole recommendation, so far as I can learn, is her pretty face?

Daisy McDonald is her name, and she lives in Indianapolis, where her

father is a poor lawyer, and Guy o and fell