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"Well, I'll run in a "

"If I do it will be by a bee," said the philosopher to himself, "an' not by no woman o' that stripe Lord, folks advise me to set up to that critter! She'd talk a deef ns to 'er to stop"

The visitor ascended the steps, crossed the porch, and, without rapping at the door, entered the sitting-rooether Mrs Drake was patching a sheet at the ; Ann, sulky and obstinate, was trying to do an example on a slate; and Dolly stood over her, a dark, wearied expression on her face

"Hello, folkses!" Miss Sally-Lou greeted them, playfully "How do y- all come on?"

When she had taken a chair she ave her opinion in regard to the buttons she eyed the girl studiously She res around the beautiful eyes, the nervous, al voice "She hain't heard yet," the caller decided "But sheMaybe he hain't writ to her since he went back--the sca"

"What are you fixing up so for, Miss Sally-Lou?" Ann wanted to know, a bubble of aet married?"

"Listen to her," Miss Wartrace tittered, quite unobservant of Ann's sarcas of "

At this juncture John Webb came in and approached his sister He had not relance, he snatched it off and stood whipping his thigh with it

"You wanted to know about them bees," he said "They don't intend to swarer about it"

"I was just laughin' at Ann, Mr John" Miss Sally-Lou raised her voice tentatively, that sheas she is, I never see 'er without havin' 'er ax some question or other about me or somebody else marryin'"

"It's jest the woman croppin' out in 'er," Webb drawled, with unconscious humor "Looks like ht to be a e others by yourself," was the unoffended retort "Plenty of ood wife, if you don't"