CHAPTER IV.
"PIGEON PIE POSTPONED."
This is Susy's letter, which lay in Mr. Parlin's pocket-book, and which he gave his impatient little daughter fifteen minutes before the cars stopped:—
"My dear little Sister: This is for you to read when you have almost got to Boston; and it is a story, because I know you will be tired.
"Once there was a wolf—I've forgotten what his name was. At the same time there were some men, and they were monks. Monks have their heads shaved. They found this wolf. They didn't see why he wouldn't make as good a monk as anybody. They tied him and then they wanted him to say his prayers, patter, patter, all in Latin.
"He opened his mouth, and then they thought it was coming; but what do you think? All he said was, 'Lamb! lamb!' And he looked where the woods were.
"So they couldn't make a monk of him, because he wanted to eat lambs, and he wouldn't say his prayers.
"Mother read that to me out of a blue book.
"Good by, darling. From
"Sister Susy."