I wouldn't be the one to repeat it, for worlds!" Left to hold the pony while Elise went in at Mrs.Bisbee's, Mary sat thinking of the snake she had discovered in her Eden.

It was a rude shock to find that every one did not admire and love the "Queen of Hearts," who to her was without fault or flaw.

All the rest of that day and evening, she could not look in Bernice Howe's direction, without a savage desire to scratch her.

Once, when she heard her address Lloyd as "dearie," she could hardly keep from crying out, "Oh, you sly, two-faced creature!" Lloyd and her guests arrived on the scene while Mary was away in the pony-cart on another borrowing expedition.

All of the tableaux, except two, were simple in setting, requiring only the costumes that could be furnished by the chests of the neighborhood attics.