The Story of the Big Front Door

M.

Aunt Sukey called a drizzle-drazzle day. The air was full of a penetrating mist that put outdoor amusements out of the question. Stormy Sat

sat on the floor building a block house fo

I reckon, if you had the fixin' of

I'd have some rain,

is best for us a heap better than a no-account fairy?" Suke

houldn't think one Saturday

an't have all they wants in this w

t you think it would be nice to go to see her

y of the weather she thought they might go if they would wear their overshoes. Miss Brown saw them as they came out of the door and raised a big umbrella. "Where can they be

they entered. They both laughed at this, and Bess explai

have been longing for some good f

ow, the mahogany chairs and tables shone with the polish time gives to such things, and behind the glass doors of the corner cupboard stood rows of pretty old china. From above the mantel

esome?" asked Louise, seating herse

company," was t

o spend the day to-day and come home with them. But of course we couldn't on account of the rain, and there is nobody at h

s for us, but we haven't found it," added Louise; then looking across the street

t, so Bess told the story, growin

e, than Dora had been. She said it explained wh

home of my own the more I wanted to try it, and now I feel settled for life! You see," she went on, "how beautifully it came about this afternoon. Here I was f

h faces that said plainly: "He

ry, with a plate of warm spicy cookies!

an," Louise asked presently, looking admiringly

earned when I wa

how, it is such prett

h you. We might have a knitti

n afghan for Uncle William!" cried Louise

t be a trouble

ure to me," she answered,

be nice-"

what?" as s

ght be a bother to you, but I was thinking how nice

lovely plan!" exc

e should be glad to have them, and she suggested that they bring t

their disappointment, and were astonished to f

ey were putting on their waterproofs. "If we had gone t

mportant notes to deliver to Miss Dora Warne

the way

own house next Saturday afternoon, to org

y yo

Hazel

e Haz

and the importance of the senders was only equalled by t

Brown ought to have. "For you know she is not used

d Bess; "she is perfect,

lady of the Brown house, fearing she wa

n was quite s

are in my sober life, you would see that

r children, but I may be partia

e time ago-they are fortunate children," and Miss Br

and silent at first after Bess introduced them to their hostess, but this wore off very quic

ny, was made assistant teacher, and fo

ll for beginners, and that it was time to

licious cakes, and chocolate which was served in the oddest little cups brought by Miss Bro

and never break any of them?" Constance asked with wide-open eyes

rown up you would give some other children c

e as funny and interesting to us when we are grown up?

d care for things when

things which I have had for a long time, more than I do new ones. When I use my tea

Brown?-about your cousin and when y

not too much tro

so eager she c

ars ago little girls were not very different from those

the first place I remember. Margaret did not come to live with us till she was six years old. Her mother too was dead, and her father spent most of his time abroad. She used to talk a great deal of her home in the South, for she

grandfather brought to me the year before Margaret came to live with us was my greatest treasure, and I thought it a great treat to be allowed to play with it. When I was ten years old Margaret and I had measles, and one day when we were nearly well grandmother left us to go to a funeral. Our house servant happened

ermined to go downstairs and find something. I stole down to the dining-room, where I found nothing but

ge we had a great time getting the crumbs out of the way, and the d

something to do with this, and perhaps the excitement also. I confessed how naughty I had been, and my grandmother was very kind, for she knew how I loved Marg

us," said Dora as the

alive now?"

and, and has three great boys and one little da

dy, till after a good deal of di

e any we ever heard of, and cal

y objection to this,

tters and we mean to b

e boys what M.K. stand