Entertaining Her Big Sister's Beau

"My sister '11 be down in a minute and says, you're to walt, if you please; And says I mlgbt stay till she came, if I'd protnise ber never to tease. Nor speak till you spoke to me flrst. But tbat's nonsense, for how would you know Wtiat she told me to say, if I didn't? Don't you really and truly think so? 'And tlien you'd feel strange hcre alon e And you wouldn't know just where to sit; For that chair isn t strong on lts legs, and we' never use it, a b . We keep it to mat h with the sofa. But Jack pays it would be like yuu o flop yourself rlgat down upon it ani knook out the very last screw. S'pose you trj? I wouldn't teil. You'ro afraid to. O! you're afraid tbey would think it was mean! Well, then, tbere's the album- that's pretty, it your fingers are clean. For sister says sometimes I daub it; but sbeonly says that wben she's cross. There's her picture. You know it? It' like her; butsheaint't asgood looking, of counsel 'This is me. It's the best of themall. Now, teil me, you'd never have tbought Thai once I was as little as this? It" tbe only one that couldbe bought- Fer that was the message to pa from the photograph man when I sat - That he wouldn't print off aDy more till he got hls money for that. 'What! Maybe your tlred of waiting. why, often sbe's loner tban this. There's all her back halr to do up and all of her front curies to friz. But it'snice to be sittiug here talklng likt grown people, just you and me. Do you think you'll be coming here often? Oh, do! but don't come like Torn Lee. "Torn Lee. Her last beau. Wby, my goodneEB! Heused to be here day and night. Till the folks tbought he would be her husband ; and Jack says that he gave him a fright. You wouldn't run away, then, as he did? for you're not a rioh man, they say ; Pa says you are as poor as a church raouse. Now, are you? And how poor are they? "Ain't you glad that you met me? Well I am, for I know now your hair ain't red; But what tbere is lefl of it's mousy. and nut wbat that naughty Jack said. But there! I must go. Sisier's coming. But 1 wish I cuuid walt Just to see If she ran up toyou and she klssed you in the way she nsed to kiss Lee.