One is always glad in a foreign land to be able to show so good a specimen of one's young countrymen as he affords,--not that England need be counted as a foreign country by any American, and least of all by myself, who have found it a true home for so many years.
As a little souvenir of our week of sight-seeing together, of which I retain most agreeable remembrances, I have sent you by my friends the Sawyers, who sail for America shortly, a copy of Hare's "Walks in London," which a young _protegee_ of mine has for the past year been illustrating with photographs of the many curious old buildings described.

You took so much interest in them while here that I hope you may like to see them again.

Will you please accept with it my most cordial wishes for your future, and believe me Very faithfully your friend, ALLEN BEACH.
"What a nice letter!" said Clover.
"Isn't it ?" replied Katy, with shining eyes, "what a thing it is to be a gentleman, and to know how to say and do things in the right way! I am so surprised and pleased that Mr.Beach should remember me.

I never supposed he would, he sees so many people in London all the time, and it is quite a long time since we were there, nearly two years.

Was your letter from Miss Inches, John ?" "Yes, and Mamma Marian sends you her love; and there's a present coming by express for you,--some sort of a book with a hard name.