"It means that she's smarter than all them boys and girls--the smartest one in her whole class." "Yes, I s'pose it does," said Andrew.

"So she has got it! Well!" "There she comes now," said Fanny, "and Grandma Brewster." Andrew borrowed money to buy a gold watch and chain for a graduating gift for his daughter.

He would scarcely have essayed anything quite so magnificent, but Fanny innocently tempted him.

The two had been sitting in the door in the cool of the evening, one day in June, about two weeks before the graduation, and had just watched Ellen's light muslin skirts flutter out of sight.

She had gone down-town to purchase some ribbon for her graduating dress--she and Floretta Vining, who had come over to accompany her.