Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times

in the forms of beautiful flowers. Around its sides were festoons of buds and bl

onderful shapes, there were bonbons and nuts in abundance,

joyed the feast! How bright the lights, how sweet the scent

der music floated in. Oh, it

atched Patr

saw a finer party t

nt, then she said just wha

one except one I went to when I was in N' York, whe

that must have been pretty big to get

w grand it looked," Patricia replied, and as t

der guests watched the two as they talked together, a

very becoming, while Nancy's fine dark eyes and graceful figu

tle face showed the joy that was in her heart. She

ripping feet had danced to lively measures, then the great hall clock hands pointed

the crisp air, they shouted with delight, for lo, while they had been in the warm, flower-scented

the first snowstorm, and there'll b

nd still the snow-flakes like downy feathers were falling lazily

d down the driveway Dorothy turned,

ch a perfect party! We'

," said

bed up into the branches of a tree which overhung the great garden, that thus she might peep at the lovely children in their beautifu

she loved Dorothy, how grateful

Aunt Charlotte found it a little difficult to kee

d to remain at home. They were Mr. Dainty's nephews, and they had been much disapp

told Arabella that she did not believe that

d a fine time, but say,-there weren't t

idn't work right," Patricia replied. "The way I turned it made steam,

would?" Arabella ask

?" Patricia replied, and Ara

n the evening of the party, Aunt Matilda spoke p

of that Lavine gi

ow her," vent

getting into mischief, is not the girl that I care to have you with, and there's no reason why you shoul

rary nature, the fact that her aunt did not approve of P

or her, because Aunt Matilda, if exasperated, might send her home, and Patricia would never overlook tha

ere talking of the coming Satur

ing your pony for a long

with Romeo on Satu

ng from the trees like fringe, and the groom says

and had walked over to meet the p

's going with yo

you just know that Dorothy wouldn't car

s, Nancy was the dearest. Patricia knew how handsome Romeo looked in his fine harness, and the trim little sleigh with its soft fur robes made

ighride with me, Arabella

Arabella, "what ti

out two, and we'll go as so

Patricia had left them she spoke

d a horse and sleigh. Has any one

e she has," s

im that afternoon by ca

der than her cousin Reginald, felt obliged to reprove hi

he asked, but Katie was talking to Mollie, and she cho

e two sleighrides

ty's school-days when with her classmates she had been as popular as Dorothy now was, and Aunt Ch

kled merrily, and in the glow the two ladies

id, "if you and Nancy will dress very warmly for the trip. Aunt

d I don't mind the cold. It'll be just

gay," said Mrs. Dainty, laughing, "but remember

th the groom riding behind the

ng as if shod with wings, his mane and tail

the frosty touch of the sharp wind upon their cheeks, an

and twittering as they pecked at the little dried berries. A great crow flew out from a bit of woodla

f powdered with diamond dust, while the rough bark of the trees still he

looked when we get home," said Dor

us to even half tel

hway, Arabella was standing at Patricia's door, ringing the bell, an

ust been out to see about our sleigh, so nobody heard you ring. The sleigh'll b

ed her up the three flights of stairs, and su

w downstairs, and we can pick

on after cushion, until Arabella'

ng to do with all thos

looked

and when she had reached t

t is!"

lla l

an old pung

ld one now, because it has just been painted yellow. It's our grocer's,

at all, and she also felt that to ride in a yellow pung, lettered, "Fine Groceries,