You ought to see my new hat.

Ah, I tell you it's a beauty; soft crown of silvery stuff, and on one side a tall aigrette and a dear little cedar-bird, and toward the back is the cutest, cunningest humming-bird with its tiny green body and long bill.

It looks as if it were ready to fly or to sing.

I selected the trimming for sister May's new hat too.

It is brown velvet and has an oriole on it; you know they are so showy and bright it makes you almost think you are in the woods.