With Winona off your hands, I should suggest that you should engage a competent nursery governess to teach the younger children the elements of order and discipline.

I would gladly pay her salary on the understanding that I should myself select her.
"Trusting that these proposals may be of some service, and hoping to hear a better account of your health, "I remain, "Your affectionate Aunt "and Godmother, "Harriet Beach." Winona laid down the letter with an agitated gasp.

The proposition almost took her breath away.
"What an idea!" she exclaimed indignantly.

"Mother, of course you won't even dream of it for an instant! I'd _hate_ to go and live with Aunt Harriet.

It's not to be thought of!" "Well, I don't know, Winona!" wavered Mrs.Woodward.