Patty at Home

for yourself! Why, if you had attempted to leave this town, we would have mobbed you with tar

urse. I'm so used to it now, I'm sure I couldn't live a day, and know t

New York as a club, but I'd want to be transported

ouglass. "It would be lots of fun for the wh

what we do," said Ethel Holmes, who was drawing pictures

re perfectly lovely, but this is my last clean shirt-wai

her art work; "they're not wash drawings, they're permanent decorations

Stevens's house, and the conversation, as yet, had not straye

ny experience with merry, healthy young girls of about sixteen, you will not be surprised to learn that the literary element had softly and suddenly vanished away, much after th

chool, and a good deal out of school, too, for that matter; and what w

merely merry frolics, with a cup of tea, which was often a

ary or treasures. Patty continued to be called the president, but the title meant nothing more than the fact that she was really a chief favourite a

s house, nine members of the Tea Club were chat

chair, curling wisps of the presidential hair over her fingers. "If Patty had gone away, I shoul

t; and if we don't find one we like, papa may build one,

the Bigelow house on our street.

, I know a much nicer one. There's a little house next-door to us, a lovely, little cottage that would suit

ouse! It wouldn't hold Patty, let alone Uncle Fred. You only

it's too little, but you could add ells and bay-windows

b?" said Patty. "I must ha

o have the Tea Club at

adn't thoug

ty. "I shall select the house with an eye si

rse. "It's awfully big, and it's pretty old, but I gu

ay out there! and it's nothing bu

ionary, or something historic; and they're going to put

ly pretty and quaint. I can see it, now, in my mind's eye, with d

but in your mind's eye," said Marian. "It's a heathenish

and cart," said Patty; "and I

ys wanted one of my own. And shall you have man-servants, and maid-servants? Oh, Patty

d, of course, I shall make lots of blunders at first; but I think it's a p

w, if you get into any dilemmas we

as a giddy little feather-head, and couldn't h

lorence Douglass. "But we'll all make her lovely things to go to housekeeping

I read about it the other day, and it's a broom-bag. I haven'

an sagely. "Make her a doz

ll, I guess I won't make them then. I'll make her something pretty.

aid Laura. "I shall embr

ura's bursts of enthusiasm spent themselves. "You'd better deci

Stevens. "Let's make Patty a tea-cloth, and we'll each

e. "Just the thing. Who'

ame all right, but

id Elsie Morris. "I do

Helen Preston. "

id Lillian Desmond. "Let's each do a s

eems in a fair way to

double row around it,

. I'll use it the first

sett

said Ethel. "I'd like to have a correct ment

"Let's all go out, and take a look at the Warner place

I'll never give my consent to that arrangement. However, I'd just as liev

in an hour, and have tea afterwards. I'll

al portal, they made the old walls ring with their laughter. The wide hall was dark and gloo

n Fleece! This is the place of all others for our Tea Club meeting, and it doesn't matter w

breakfast, too, if you'll only hurry up and get out of th

a Russell; "and while we're he

ous advantages should escape your notice. Observe the hardwood fl

tair-rail was in a most dilapidated condition, and the c

id Ethel Holmes, with t

you have? It is a fine

ut here and there with

els are drea

inted wood, you m

the wall-papers! Note the fine stage of complete

aid Patty. "They look as if they'd

ave been an interesting specimen of its type. But after a short investigation, Patt

cried Patty. "Come on, girls, we're goin

only waiting for somebody to ancestralise it. You could make it one of the

that will do you any good, but not a bit longer;