We have an old copy of Shakespeare at home that was my mother's, and I have read much of it in the long winter evenings.

I think," she added, whimsically, "that I would rather play parts like Shylock or Hamlet than the girl roles, and best of all, I should love dearly to play Prince Hal." "What do you think of that ?" Anne said on the way home.

"The idea of her being interested in Shakespeare at all or knowing anything about it, after living all her life in that little sand dump.

Kit, you certainly have discovered a flower that was born to blush unseen." "It will take her out of her shell, anyway," Kit replied, happily.

"And I do think the girls came up to the mark splendidly.