She composes poems also.

The other day she suddenly announced,-- "Mamma, I have made up a sort of a im.

May I say it to you ?" I naturally consented, and this was the IM.
Jump in the parlor, Jump in the hall, God made us all! Now did you ever hear of anything quite so dear as that, for a baby only three years and five months old?
I tell you she is a wonder.

You will all adore her, Clover particularly.

Oh, my dear little C.! To think I am going to see her! I met both Ellen Gray and Esther Dearborn the other day, and where do you think it was?
At Mary Silver's wedding! Yes, she is actually married to the Rev.Charles Playfair Strothers, and settled in a little parsonage somewhere in the Hoosac Tunnel,--or near it,--and already immersed in "duties." I can't think what arguments he used to screw her up to the rash act; but there she is.
It wasn't exactly what one would call a cheerful wedding.