A PACKET.
other, here is a nice little square packet come for you by post!" said Minnie as Mrs. Headley entered the dining-room the next morning.
"Yes; Minnie has been turning it, and twisting it, and weighing it, and smelling it—doing everything except open it," said John, laughing.
"I do wish to know what it is though!" said Minnie shyly, "and I believe John wants to see just as much as I do."
"I will open it presently," answered their mother, smiling, while she seated herself at the head of the table.
"Minnie is always rather curious," observed Hugh, looking up from a lesson he had been conning over.
"This is something which will rouse your curiosity, and I will see who can tell me the meaning of it," answered Mrs. Headley.
"Then you know what it is, mother?" asked Minnie.
Her mother assented; and when they had finished breakfast, and their father had gone off to his business, Mrs. Headley took up the little package and began untying the knots.