ren hunt around and get something for yourselves. Luella has gone
to stay with Ora's family so Ora can be with Leona. She will need all
the comfort she can get. We must try to help the poor girl, for her
illness and all this will take everything they may have saved. Ellis
is pitifully sad, but he says he means to support the family. Poor
little chap, as if he could! I am going to try to arrange a bazaar or
cake sale or something to help them; you children may help if you like."

"Oh, may we? How lovely!" cried Molly.

"I've helped at fairs," said Grace.

"And once I helped my aunt at a tea she gave the village children,"
said Mary.

"I'll do everything I can, though I never saw a fair or a bazaar," said
Polly. "Tell us more about it, Aunt Ada."

"Tell her all you know, girls," said Aunt Ada. "I must go now. You
will not be afraid to stay alone till I get back, will you?"

Her nieces assured her that they would not, and she left them in quite
a state of excitement, for, sad as the occasion was, they could not
help anticipating the pleasure of the bazaar. "We will have such a
lovely time getting ready for the sale," said Molly. "We have had them
here before, and they are lots of fun. I know what I am going to do.
I'm going to the wood-pile and strip off a whole lot of birch bark to
make things of."

"What kind of things?" asked Mary.

"Oh, all sorts of things; napkin rings and picture frames and boxes."

"Oh!" Mary was interested. She had never seen such things except
those that the Indian peddlers brought around to the cottages, and
never did one appear over the brow of the hill, bowed under the burden
of his baskets, that she did not run for her purse, and by now had
quite an array of gifts for her English friends. To add to these a
supply of birch-bark souvenirs which she could make herself was a
prospect truly delightful. "It is very convenient that a quarter is
about the same as a shilling," she remarked, "but I can never remember
that a penny is two cents; it seems as if an American penny should be
the same as an English one."

"I should think you would be glad it isn't," said Polly, "for when you
are counting at the rate of our pennies you have twice as many as you
would have English ones."

"Well, I don't know," said Mary thoughtfully. "I had a whole pound
when I reached here, and Uncle Dick had it changed into American money.
I thought I had such a number of pennies and I found they