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"Our firstaround with a roll sandwich in one hand and a wedge of pie in the other

By night every clean littlein that many-ed house was curtained hite drapery, and in soan to look cozy in spite of its emptiness, and they could hardly bear to leave it when sunset warned the near dinner-time and they

Another day at the little house co, and by this time all the furniture so far purchased had arrived, and they had no need to be there to watch for anything else; so another day of shopping was agreed upon

"And I move we pick out the piano first of all," said Leslie "I'ain, and you don't knoell Allison can sing, Cloudy You just ought to hear hireed that the piano was as good a place as any to begin

That day was the best of all the wonderful shopping to Julia Cloud To be actually picking out wonderful any furniture such as she had seen occasionally in houses of the rich, such as she had adazine articles, seemed too wonderful to be true For the first tis, and she felt as if she had stepped into at least the anteroo the children to spend so uardian had made it plain that they had plenty to spend; for it did not seeht to use so radually her viewpoint began to change It was true that these things were only relative, and what see directly froe of as right and necessary And of course there was always the fact that good things lasted, and were continually beautiful if well chosen Also e circle of outsiders by a beautiful home

So Julia Cloud, because the matter of expenditure was not, after all, in her hands, decided just to have a good ti only where she thought the article the children selected was not worth buying, or was foolish and useless But on the whole they got along beautifully, and agreed most marvellously about what fitted the little pink-and-white stone "villa," as Leslie had named it "'Cloud Villa,' that's e'll call it," she cried one day in sudden inspiration; and so it was called thereafter in loving jest