"No," said her mother, smiling: "it says John Ransom, Esq."
"Is that our Johnny?" asked Daisy.
"No, it means papa," answered her mother.
"Are you going to open it, mamma. Papa is away."
"No, we'll leave it till papa returns. He will be here to-morrow evening."
"I don't fink it's a good plan to wait. It makes people tired," said Daisy, plaintively.
"But it is right to wait when papa did not tell us to open it," said Mrs. Ransom. "Little girls must not be too curious."
"Is it kurous to make a little hole in the paper and peek in?" asked Daisy, after a moment or two of deep reflection.
"Yes, curious and very naughty," said Mrs. Ransom. "That would be meddlesome. Ask Nellie to tell you a story she knows about a meddlesome girl."