me
walking round her, but otherwise she is an excellent housekeeper.

It is reported that the school is haunted. A mysterious light was seen
there at two o'clock one night recently.

(THE STORY GIRL AND I EXCHANGE KNOWING SMILES BEHIND THE OTHERS' BACKS.)

Dan and Felicity had a fight last Tuesday--not with fists but with
tongues. Dan came off best--as usual. (FELICITY LAUGHS SARCASTICALLY.)

Mr. Newton Craig of Markdale returned home recently after a somewhat
prolonged visit in foreign parts. We are glad to welcome Mr. Craig back
to our midst.

Billy Robinson was hurt last week. A cow kicked him. I suppose it is
wicked of us to feel glad but we all do feel glad because of the way he
cheated us with the magic seed last summer.

On April 1st Uncle Roger sent Mr. Peter Craig to the manse to borrow the
biography of Adam's grandfather. Mr. Marwood told Peter he didn't think
Adam had any grandfather and advised him to go home and look at the
almanac. (PETER, SOURLY: "Your Uncle Roger thought he was pretty smart."
FELICITY, SEVERELY: "Uncle Roger IS smart. It was so easy to fool you.")

A pair of blue birds have built a nest in a hole in the sides of the
well, just under the ferns. We can see the eggs when we look down. They
are so cunning.

Felix sat down on a tack one day in May. Felix thinks house-cleaning is
great foolishness.

ADS.

LOST--STOLEN--OR STRAYED--A HEART. Finder will be rewarded by returning
same to Cyrus E. Brisk, Desk 7, Carlisle School.

LOST OR STOLEN. A piece of brown hair about three inches long and one
inch thick. Finder will kindly return to Miss Cecily King, Desk 15,
Carlisle School.

(CECILY: "Cyrus keeps my hair in his Bible for a bookmark, so Flossie
tells me. He says he means to keep it always for a remembrance though
he has given up hope." DAN: "I'll steal it out of his Bible in Sunday
School." CECILY, BLUSHING: "Oh, let him keep it if it is any comfort to
him. Besides, it isn't right to steal." DAN: "He stole it." CECILY: "But
Mr. Marwood says two wrongs never make a right.")

HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT

Aunt Olivia's wedding cake was said to be the best one of its kind ever
tasted in Carlisle. Me and mother made it.

ANXIOUS INQUIRER:--It is not advisable to curl your hair with mucilage
if you can get anything else. Quince juice is better. (CECILY, BITTERLY:
"I suppose I'll never hear the last of that mucilage." DAN: "Ask her who
used tooth-powder to raise biscuits?")

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