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"Let's go down to the house, and s, and look around once more," proposed Leslie "Then we can come back and wait here for Guardy We et everything fixed up and get away I know hiet a time-table?"

Allison produced one from his coat-pocket, and they studied the trains, and decided that there was no possibility of the arrival of their guardian until three o'clock, and probably not until five

"That's all right," said Leslie "Cloudy and I'll stay here from three to five, and you can meet the trains; but first I want the diot a whole lot to do before college opens, and we can't spare a minute O Cloudy! I'm so happy! Isn't that house just a duck?"

They went to the village store, bought a foot-rule, a yardstick, and a tape-measure, and repaired to the house Allison took the foot-rule by ht; Julia Cloud said she felt more at home with the tape-measure; and Leslie preferred the yardstick With pencil and paper they went to work, ram of each roo it rooth of curtains, and whether furniture will fit in," declared Leslie wisely "I've thought it all out nights in the sleeper on the way over here Just think! Isn't it going to be fun furnishing the whole house? You know, Cloudy, I didn't have hardly anything sent, because it really wasn't worth while We sort of wanted to leave the house at ho, to coentleman, a friend of Grandfather's and Guardy's, who has only himself and his wife and servants, and will take beautiful care of it But I went around and picked out anything I wanted, rugs and pictures and soany that I love, just sht buy our own things He set a liood experience for us to learn how to buy wisely inside a certain sum"

Julia Cloud went around like one in a dreaures, and feeling like a child playing dolls again It was almost three o'clock when they finally finished their measurements, and Allison hurried them back to the inn, and repaired to the station to meet trains