Grandmama Camp and Great-grandmother Camp and Great-grandmother Gray who was called “Old Lady Lois,” belonged to Mama Nan, and when Papa Dick married her he brought them all home to his own house. He said he liked the idea. Mrs. Camp, Mama Nan’s mother, was a young, handsome, stylish woman with black hair and black eyes. Great-grandmother Camp, called “Madam Esther,” was tall and also had black hair and black eyes. “Old Lady Lois,” Mrs. Gray, was quite a beautiful old lady. She had a sweet face, and always wore a flower in her soft white mull kerchiefs.
“I think I know,” said Grandmama Camp, looking around on the others, “just how Nan’s baby will tell us apart.”
“How,” they asked. But she would not tell them.
Ella Farman Pratt.
THE NIMBLE PENNIES.
Draw two circles, one small, one large, the small one lapping over the other, as in the first and second drawings. Use a small cent in drawing the small circle, and a large copper cent (or a two-cent piece, or a silver quarter) in drawing the large circle. After that you will easily make a picture of a bright-eyed, long-tailed, nibbling mouse.
THE HOUSE OF THE GRANDMOTHERS.
CHAPTER VI.—A Little Journey.
One day, suddenly Mary Ellen began to creep.
