A PACKAGE FOR ROSE.
NO. II.
THEY found the scissors in Mrs. Harrison’s work basket and then sat down together on the doorstep to open the package. When the outside paper was taken off they saw there were really two small packages, both wrapped alike in white paper, but one was square and flat, and the other round and slender,—indeed one might almost have guessed it to be, as Rose said, a very large stick of candy.
“Oh, let me open the round one!” cried Priscilla.
“No, I want to open that myself,” said Rose, “but I’ll let you open the other.”
“Well,” answered Priscilla pleasantly, “I will.”
So saying, she began to tear off the paper, but stopped at an exclamation from Rose.
“See! see! Priscilla, this is old gold satin!”