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"Yours respectfully,

DAISY THORNTON"

Miss McDonald had been shopping since ten in the oods stores, and toy-shops, and candy

stores, while bundle after bundle had been deposited on the cushions,

and others ordered to be sent But she was nearly through now, and just

as it was beginning to grow dark in the streets she bade her coach for her in the dining roo in the parlor Mrs McDonald was not very well,

and had kept her rooht, and cahter The December as cold and raw, and

a feflakes fell on Daisy's hat and cloak as she ran up the steps

and entered the warht room, which seemed so pleasant when

contrasted with the dreariness without

"Oh, how nice this is, and how tired and cold I a fire

"Are you through with your shopping?" Mrs McDonald asked, in a

half-querulous tone, as if she did not altogether approve of her

daughter's acts

"Yes, all through, except a shawl for old Sarah Mackie and a few more