A Country Christmas

A handful of good life is worth a bushel of learning.

“Dear Emily,--I have a brilliant idea, and at oncehasten to share it with you. Three weeks ago I cameup here to the wilds of Vermont to visit my old aunt,also to get a little quiet and distance in which to surveycertain new prospects which have opened before me,and to decide whether I will marry a millionnaire andbecome a queen of society, or remain ‘the charmingMiss Vaughan' and wait till the conquering herocomes.”

“Aunt Plumy begs me to stay over Christmas, andI have consented, as I always dread the formal dinnerwith which my guardian celebrates the day.”