Do you know who I am ?" "I heard Rosie call you Uncle Horace." "Then suppose you follow Rosie's example.

If you are as good as you are bonny, I shall be proud to claim you as my niece." "But I'm not," she said frankly.

Then hastily correcting herself, "I don't mean to say I'm bonny, but I'm not good.

Aunt Beulah used to say I was the worst child she ever saw." "Indeed! you are honest, at all events," he said, with a look of amusement.

"And who is Aunt Beulah ?" "The person Gracie and I lived with before papa got married to Mamma Vi." "Ah! well I shall not regard her opinion, but wait and form one for myself, and I shall certainly be much surprised if you don't turn out a pattern good girl, now that you are to live with my sweet sister Elsie.