Dear Si: - All of us girls are sorry that you can't come to the party.
We made a great mistake when we proposed that each one should pay ten
cents, even though the money was to be used to help aunt Betsey. We
know that only the lack of money prevents you from coming, and, in
order that you need not be obliged to stay away when we all want to see
you, I have paid the ten cents for your necktie, which I send with this
letter. Will you please come as early as eight o'clock?

Your friend,
Agnes Morrell

For several moments after Aggie ceased reading, the applause was so
great that it was impossible for anyone to make herself heard.. The
girls were so pleased with the scheme that they were almost as noisy as
the boys would have been under similar circumstances.

"Now we must each give twenty-five cents," Aggie said, as soon as the
tumult had partially subsided, "and we will buy the things for aunt
Betsey, so that the boys will know we have really paid the money. Each
one decide which boy she will write to, so that everyone will get a
letter, and mother says you may all come to my house to-night to make
the neckties. I've been to Mr. Dilloway's and Lute Haley's and got the
prints, so
that we can have everything fixed this evening."

"When will we send the letters?"

"The first thing in the morning. Mother will wrap up the neckties to-
night, so that we