The dishes being done, and Miss Grundy making no objections, Mary
accompanied Jenny up stairs, where the latter, opening her basket,
held to view a neat-looking straw hat, far prettier than the one which
Mrs. Campbell had presented.

"See," said she, placing it upon Mary's head; "this is for you. I
wanted to give you mine, but 'twasn't big enough, so Rose let you have
hers. It's real becoming, too."

The tears which fell from Mary's eyes were caused not less by Jenny's
kindness, than by the thought that the haughty Rose Lincoln had given
her a bonnet! She did not know of the sacrifice which the
noble-hearted Jenny had made to obtain it, and it was well she did
not, for it would have spoiled all the happiness she experienced in
wearing it.

"Thank you, Jenny, and Rose too," said she. "I am so glad, for I love
to go to church, and I surely would never have gone again and wore
that other bonnet."

"I wouldn't either," returned Jenny. "I think it was ridiculous for
Mrs. Campbell to give you such an old dud of a thing, and I know
mother thinks so too, for she laughed hard for her, when I described
it, though she said nothing except that 'beggars shouldn't be
choosers.' I wonder what that means. Do you know?"

Mary felt that she was beginning to know, but she did not care to
enlighten Jenny, who soon sprang up, saying she must go home, or her
mother would be sending Henry after her. "And I don't want him to come