or reflection shewn by any of the talkers, may perhaps display their
characters, and add two or three facts to our story, which may be
amusing to some few of our readers.

'Oh! Lucy,' cried Harriet, with a start, 'take care of my spotted
muslin, it is caught on the lock of the box. You always are so
careless.'

Katherine assisted Lucy to rescue the dress from the threatened
danger, and Harriet continued, 'Well, and what do you wear to-morrow,
Kate?'

'White muslin, with pink ribbons,' said Katherine.

'I have a green and orange striped mousseline de laine, Mamma gave
only fifteen-pence a yard for it; I will shew it to you when Lucy
comes to it, and you will see if it is not a bargain. And what
bonnets?'

'Straw, with ribbon like our sashes,' said Katherine. 'Oh! we had so
much trouble to get--'

'My bonnet is green satin,' said Harriet, 'but if I had been you,
Kate, I would have had Leghorn. Wouldn't you, Lucy?'

'Five Leghorn bonnets would have cost too much,' said Katherine, 'and
Mamma wished us all to be alike.'

'Ah! she would not let you be smarter than her own girls, eh, Kitty?'
said Harriet, laughing.