Beneath the Limberlost Canopy

ck-soled, beautifully shaped brown walking shoe

y are the right size, W

girl of sixteen w

don't fit when she tries them, we will drive straig

y should give Elnora their purchase

will be awful mad

of Kate Comstock's land and cut a tree, or drive off a calf to pay for them. Why I know one tree she owns that would put Elnora in heaven for a year. Just think of it, Margaret! It's not fair. One-third of what is there belongs to Elnora by law, and if Kate Comstock raises a row, I'll tell her so and see that the girl ge

inton, you're

been laws made to provide for them? I can bring it up in court and force Kate to educ

ate would

and and working her fields. Let her sell a good tree or a few acres. Something is going to be done right now. Elnora's been fairly happy up to this, but to spoil the school life she's planned is to ruin all her life. I won't have it! If Elnora won't take these things,

n and blue plaid On each of them lay a yard and a half of wide ribbon to match. There were handkerchiefs and a brown leather belt. In her

w,” she explained. “It ha

them taken off

for the hat, and those things were a dolla

admitted Wesley, “but will

e of them go on just where those came off, and nobody will ever know the difference. They match the hat to a moral, and they are just a little longer

sley anxiously. “Don't you ri

while I get the thr

rgaret took them up and pinche

ey are fine

rned it in his big hands. He glanc

e said softly. “Like as not, I'll have to t

. “That's a happy little shoe to get the chance to carry as fin

d at Margare

rainy days, and those things she has now ain

you get hig

e man said he would make them che

ill do her past Christmas,” she

t she stopped at the old case Duncan gave her and took out that pail, where it had been all day, and put a napkin inside it. Coming home, she confessed she was half starved because she hid her dinner under a culvert, and

the table. “Might be a couple of books, or drawing tools or mo

nother for salad, a glass with a lid which screwed on, held by a ring in a corner, for custard or jelly, a f

s almost cr

to fill it!”

ng and make one of those dresses tomorrow. Can't you make a plain gingham dress in a day? I'll pick a ch

dresses when it comes to making them. There are going to be edgings of plain green, pink, and brown to

said Wesley. “Can the two of you m

she'll ne

I'll say better alone. But she'll come, and she'll help make the dress. These other things are our Christmas gifts to Elnora. She'll no d

brown raincoat. Margaret dropped the hat, arose, and took the coat. She

in tonight?” she inquired so

, dropping back in her chair, th

ey. “It's Christmas for you, too, Margaret!” He shook out fold after fold of soft grey

she exclaimed and fle

ress patterns in salt water for half an hour. Wesley held the lamp while she hung the goods on the