[ONE NIGHT.]
BY MRS. W. J. HAYS.
"I'd like to have been Joan of Arc."
"And I, Queen Elizabeth."
"Who would you have chosen, Winnie?"
"The idea of asking a girl who is afraid in the dark!" said a sneering voice.
"It is rather absurd," replied brown-eyed Winnie, though she flushed a little uncomfortably, "but," she continued, "I have told you, Lulu, that I am trying to conquer that."
"What makes you afraid, anyhow?" queried Joan of Arc.
"I really don't know. I suppose somebody must have scared me when I was too little to remember."
"Pshaw! you're afraid of burglars," said Queen Elizabeth.