"My uncle followed his words with a brightening face, and when they grew particularly mixed, he would exclaim, softly, 'It is a great gift! a great gift!'"

[The Victims of Dreams].

Not Pretty, but Precious,
and Other Short Stories.

By

John Hay,
Clara F. Guernsey,
Margaret Hosmer,
Harriet Prescott Spofford,
Lucy Hamilton Hooper,
Etc.