there are things I must have, I can pay part the first month and
the remainder the second. I am eager for pay-day. I can't even
picture the bliss of having that much money in my fingers, all my
own, to do with as I please. Won't it be grand?"

In the same breath said Agatha: "Procure yourself some clothes!"
Said Adam: "Start a bank account!"

Said Kate: "Right you are! I shall do both."

"Even our little Susan has a bank account," said Adam, Jr.,
proudly.

"Which is no reflection whatever on me," laughed Kate. "Susan did
not have the same father and mother I had. I'd like to see a girl
of my branch of the Bates family start a bank account at ten."

"No, I guess she wouldn't," admitted Adam, dryly.

"But have you heard that Nancy Ellen has started?" cried Kate.
"Only think! A lawn-mower! The house and barn to be painted!
All the dinge possible to remove scoured away, inside! She must
have worn her fingers almost to the bone! And really, Agatha,
have you seen the man? He's as big as Adam, and just fine
looking. I'm simply consumed with envy."

"Miss Medira, Dora, Ann, cast her net, and catched a man!" recited
Susan from the top step, at which they all laughed.

"No, I have not had the pleasure of casting my optics upon the