We have got you now, and we mean to keep you." "How pleasant you look!" said Rose, glancing up the locust walk toward the house, which wore a most inviting and hospitable air, with doors and windows wide open, and the soft wind fluttering the vines and the white curtains.

"Ah, there comes Katy now." She ran forward to meet her while Clover followed with little Rose.
"Let me det down, pease," said that young lady,--the first remark she had made.

"I tan walk all by myself.

I am not a baby any more." "_Will_ you hear her talk ?" cried Katy, catching her up.

"Isn't it wonderful?
Rosebud, who am I, do you think ?" "My Aunt Taty, I dess, betause you is so big.