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"I don't hold oetically knitted into theup "I don't knoe're comin' to, these days"

"There, there, Ma, I don't knoomen shouldn't be doctors, if they want to They ettin' married sohty handy in a house A doctor an' a lawyer, noould be a gret teaht in the fambly, like Well, Sis, we'll see; we'll see"

I knew that the matter was practically settled; and there was little sleep for ht in the old farm-house

I stayed at hoain to the little yellow station whose door opens wide upon all the world

"Well, good-by, Helen 'Lizy," he said

"Good-by, Father"

For weeks I had been eager to be off, but as the train began to ure--hewere for a day--a big lu him and Ma--old before their ti forroo away in his chair, Mother bolt upright and thin and pri; no sound but the chair and the ticking clock upon the shelf--that night and every night And the early bedti day--what a contrast to this!

I pressed ainst the , but a rush of tears blurred all the dear, farain elevator at the siding, the Hartsville road trailing off over the prairie; I would have given worlds to be in the top buggy again,swiftly out, out, alone, into the world Three o! I did not dream what miracles were in store!

And so one day I reached the New York I had drea that it appealed to littering, feverish withwith life

How it fascinated me!

Just at first of course I was lonely because John had not yet come, and Mrs Baker, mother's cousin, ay from home But I soon irls, twins and precisely alike, except, that Ethel is slightly la place I made the acquaintance of an art student from Cincinnati three or four years older than I, who proposed that we should becoirl bachelors and live in a studio