I never was at a wedding before where everybody was not perfectly worn out." "You never were at such a simple wedding before," explained Katy.

"I'm not ambitious, you see.

I want to keep things pretty much as they are every day, only with a little more of everything because of there being more people to provide for.

If I were attempting to make it a beautiful, picturesque wedding, we should get as tired as anybody, I have no doubt." Katy's gifts were numerous enough to satisfy even Clover, and comprised all manner of things, from a silver tray which came, with a rather stiff note, from Mrs.Page and Lilly, to Mary's new flour-scoop, Debby's sifter, and a bottle of home-made hair tonic from an old woman in the "County Home." Each of the brothers and sisters had made her something, Katy having expressed a preference for presents of home manufacture.

Mrs.Ashe gave her a beautiful sapphire ring, and Cecy Hall--as they still called her inadvertently half the time--an elaborate sofa-pillow embroidered by herself.