HAZEL CLYDE.
All-hallow-e'en.
P. S. I 'm rather anxious about the note I put in the Wishing-Tree for papa.
All-hallow-e'en.
DARLING PATER NOSTER,--When I think of last year, my heart aches for you and my precious Martie. Oh, why did n't she tell us before! I never should have asked for that dress and the French grammar and dictionary and the cheap set of Dickens', if I had only known.
Do, Pater dear, let us know in the future if you are in trouble, and let us help share it. Would n't that make it easier for you?
Now a favor; I want you and Martie to play boy and girl again this year and hang up your stockings for a change; and please, please, father dear, don't give us anything this year--we don't want anything but you and Martie, and besides, we have money of our own! Chi calls us "bloated bond-holders," and says we have formed a "combine."
Your loving daughter,
ROSE BLOSSOM.
DEAREST COUSIN JACK,--I have n't answered your letter because I 've been having too good a time. This is only a Wishing-Tree note; I want you to do me a favor, please; find out what I can buy nice for papa with a dollar. I 've earned it myself (and a great deal more, Jack, you would be surprised if you knew how much the preserves and chickens came to) and want him to have a present out of it. Then, I would like to buy something for Doctor Heath, about fifty cents' worth, and another fifty cents' worth for Mrs. Heath. I want to give Aunt Carrie a little something, too, out of my own earnings; (I've all my two quarterly allowances besides,) I can afford fifty cents for her; and then I would like to remember Wilkins with a little gift out of my earnings for mamma's sake as well as my own, and then I shall have twenty-five cents left of the money I worked for. The rest we all voted to put aside for March to help him through college. He wants to be an architect, you know, and he draws beautifully. I shall be glad of your advice.