The work was done at last; the boxes were packed; those poor little boxes! They were but little, and they had seen service already.

Of themselves they told a story.

And they held now, safely packed up, the College fit-out of the two young men.
"I wonder if Shagarack is a very smart place, mamma ?" said Winifred, as she crouched beside the boxes watching the packing.
"Why ?" Winifred was silent and looked thoughtfully into the box.
"Rufus and Governor will not care if it is." "They needn't care," said Asahel, who was also at the box- side.

"They can bear to be not quite so smart as other folks.
Mr.Haye said he never saw such a pair of young men; and I guess he didn't." Winifred sighed and still looked into the box, with a face that said plainly _she_ would like to have them smart.
"O well, mamma," she said presently, "I guess they will look pretty nice, with all those new things; and the socks are nice, aren't they?
If it was only summer -- nobody can look nicer than Winthrop when he has his white clothes on." "It will be summer by and by," said Mrs.Landholm.
The evening came at last; the supper was over; and the whole family drew together round the fire.

It was not a very talkative evening.