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I do not believe I ah all my life I have seen my

parents try to seem what they are not; that is, try to seeht him only a few hundreds

a year, and there was mother and myself and Tom to support Tom is my

cousin--Toh

I never tried to h he used to

tease s in my shoes, and worms on my neck,

and Jack-o'-lanterns in my room, and tip me off his sled into the snow;

but still I liked hireat, kind,

unselfish heart, and I shall never forget that look on his face when I

told him I could not be his wife I did not like him as he liked me, and

I did not want to be married anyway, and if I did o, and the night before he started for

South A to make his fortune, and he wanted me

to promise to wait for him, and said no one would ever love me as well

as he did

I could not proold mines in Peru,

I did not care to spend ht, and all the tiood deal to ask of a woman, and I told

him so, and he cried so hard--not loud, but in a pitiful kind of way,