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Dolly was dancing about the roo herself in one position, then another, in order to view the dress froe She even went out into the hall and sauntered back as if to surprise herself by a sudden sight of the treasure

"Stop your silliness!" her ular circus clown or e when you try yourself"

"I just want you to put it on, Dolly," the seamstress said, with elation "All the ti how nice it would look on you Mary is plain; I reckon there is no har that, even if her mother is dead"

"She will look better in black," said Mrs Drake, "or pure white Colors as full of life as this dress has would die dead on a dingy complexion like Mary's, or any of the Cobb women, for that matter They look for the world as if they lived on coffee and couldn't git it out of their systems Dolly, shuck off your dress and try it on"

Dolly needed no urging In her exciteot to correct her mother's speech, which she would have done on any other occasion, and began at once to divest her slender for the latter at her feet and springing lightly out of the circular heap The seamstress took up the dress carefully and held it in readiness

"You will be a regular butterfly in it," she said, laughingly "You are light on your feet as a grasshopper anyway"

While the toar co her beautiful bare neck as she eyed herself in theon the First Sunday," Mrs Drake remarked "Folks will have on their best if the weather is fine, an' I don't see no sign o' rain It will e to think she is as big as anybody, an' don't seem to remember that Dolly makes 'er own money But Dolly's to bla her wear things she ought to keep for herself"

"Growing girls are all that way about things to put on," mumbled Miss Munson, the corner of her hty ideas I fell in love with a er old enough to be ht, please There, that is all right Quit wiggling I was such a fool about him, and showed it so plain that it turned the old scaht Oh, it was exciting! Father took down his shotgun from the rack over the fireplace and ordered hiood and sound and o to bed You may say what you please, but that sort o' medicine will certainly cure a certain brand o' love It didelse had ever done Froht of that man All at once he looked toevery tiht as he broke an' run across the yard with two of our dogs after him"