ale herself
with the snow which lay upon the sill. Often, too, when her lessons
were over for the day, she would bound away, and after a walk of a
mile or so, would return to the house with her cheeks glowing, and her
eyes sparkling like stars. Burnishing a striking contrast to her pale,
sickly sister, who hovered over the stove, shivering if a window were
raised, or a door thrown open.

In the course of the winter Mrs. Lincoln came up to visit her
daughters, expressing herself much pleased with Rose's improved looks
and manners. "Her complexion was so pure" she said, "so different from
what it was when she came from Mount Holyoke."

Poor Jenny, who, full of life and spirits came rushing in to see her
mother, was cut short in her expression of joy by being called "a
perfect bunch of fat!"

"Why, Jenny, what does make you so red and coarse?" said the
distressed mother. "I know you eat too much," and before Mrs. Lincoln
went home, she gave her daughter numerous lectures concerning her
diet; but it only made matters worse; and when six weeks after, Mrs.
Lincoln came again she found that Jenny had not only gained five
pounds, but that hardly one of her dresses would meet!

"Mercy me!" said she, the moment her eye fell upon Jenny's round,
plump cheeks, and fat shoulders, "you are as broad as you are long.
What a figure you would cut in Boston!"

For once the merry Jenny cried, wondering how she could help being
healthy and fat. Before Mrs. Lincoln left Chicopee, she made a
discovery, which resulted in the removal of Jenny to Boston. With the
exception of the year at Mount Holyoke, Jenny had never before passed
a winter in the country, and now everything delighted her. In spite of
her governess's remonstrance, all her leisure moments were spent in
the open air, and besides her long walks, she frequently joined the
scholars, who from the district school came over at recess to slide
down the long hill in the rear of Mrs. Campbell's barns and stables.
For Jenny to ride down hill at all was bad enough, "but to do so with
_district school_ girls, and then be drawn up by coarse, vulgar boys,
was far worse;" and the offender was told to be in readiness to
accompany her mother home, for she could not stay in Chicopee another
week.

"Oh, I'm so glad," said Rose, "for now I shan't freeze to death
nights."

Mrs. Lincoln demanded what she meant, and was told that Jenny insisted
upon having the window down from the top, let the