"PROUD AS A PEACOCK."
A DIALOGUE.
Laura.—Why is it, Rachel, that you wear that old winter dress to church, this fine spring morning? Look at me.
Rachel.—What a pretty silk! And what a becoming hat and plume!
Laura.—I gave my mother no peace till she got them for me. Why don't you make your father buy you a new spring dress, Rachel?
Rachel.—He would have given me such a dress, if I had not told him I should like something else better.
Laura.—Indeed! Pray, what else would you like better than a beautiful spring dress?
Rachel.—I knew that if my father gave me a silk dress this spring, he could not afford to let me take music-lessons: so I told him I would rather study music than have a new dress.
Laura.—What a silly girl, to prefer music-lessons to a nice new dress!