yourself! Your wedding shan't be used to pay
off our scores. You may ask exactly whom you please, want, and feel
quite comfortable to have around you----"

Then Sally fell on mother's neck and every one cried a while; then we
wiped up, Leon gave Sally his slate, and she came and sat beside the
table and began to make out a list of those she really wanted to
invite. First she put down all of our family, even many away in Ohio,
and all of Peter's, and then his friends, and hers. Once in the list
of girls she stopped and said: "If I take that beautiful imported
handkerchief from Pamela Pryor, I have just got to invite her."

"And she will outdress and outshine you at your own wedding," put in
Shelley.

"Let her, if she can!" said Sally calmly. "She'll have to hump herself
if she beats that dress of mine; and as for looks, I know lots of
people who think gray eyes, pink cheeks, and brown curls far daintier
and prettier than red cheeks and black eyes and curls. If she really
is better looking than I am, it isn't her fault; God made her that way,
and He wouldn't like us to punish her for it; and it would, because any
one can see she wants to be friends; don't you think, mother?"--mother
nodded--"and besides, I think she's better looking than I am, myself!"

Sally said that, and wrote down the Princess' name in big letters, and
no one cheeped.

Then she began on our neighbourhood, thinking out loud and writing what
she thought. So all of us were as still, and held our breath in softly
and waited, and Sally said slow and musing like, "Of course we couldn't
have anything at THIS house without Sarah Hood. She dressed most of us
when we were born, nursed us when we were sick, helped with threshing,
company, and parties, and she's just splendid anyway; we better ask all
the Hoods"; so she wrote them down. "And it will be lonely for Widow
Willis and the girls to see every one else here--we must have them; and
of course Deams--Amanda is always such splendid help; and the Widow
Fall is so perfectly lovely, we want her for decorative purposes; and
we could scarcely leave out Shaws; they always have all of us
everything they do; and Dr. Fenner of course; and we'll want Flo and
Agnes Kuntz to wait on table, so their folks might as well come too----"

So she went on taking up each family we knew, and telling what they had
done for us, or what we had done for them; and she found some good
reason for inviting them, and prett