describe. "We've been told on good authority that we are made in the
King's image, so it must be true."

"Oh!--_that_?" cried Betty.

"Certainly; you didn't think we free-born Yankees--descendants of the
Puritan Fathers--were going to claim relationship with any of those
effete European aristocracies, did you?" with a droll look at Sara.

"N--no."

Betty, not half understanding, but fully aware of Miss Prue's
drolleries, was determined not to be caught in any trap now, so kept to
monosyllables; and the latter, having created sufficient interest to
insure a hearing, proceeded to make her explanations in regard to such a
circle.

In a small, isolated village anything which links one, even distantly,
with the great throbbing world outside, is eagerly welcomed by the
young. These all have their dreams, hopes, and fancies connected with
this sphere on which we move, and they are usually far too wide to be
contained within one square mile of territory; unless, perchance, that
mile teems so thickly with humanity as to offer every possible form of
comedy and tragedy. For it is not trees and hills and skies, or even the
sea, which can satisfy youth; but living, breathing, suffering human
nature. By and by they tire, perhaps, of the latter, and go back to
nature,--in love, as they have never been with man,--but that is after
disappointment has made the heart sore.

To-day the thought of allying themselves with thousands of other girls