I shall speak to your parents about it, and they will appreciate better than you do the advantages it would mean for you to follow out my plan.

Now I will give you the present I promised you, and I think it will be this very same silver powder-box.

You probably do not use powder, but it is a pretty ornament to set on your dressing table, and I want you to let it remind you of your promise not to play practical jokes." "Oh, thank you, Grandma," said Marjorie, as she took the pretty trinket; "I'm glad to have it, because it is so pretty.

And I will remember my promise, and somehow I feel sure I'm going to keep it." "I think you will, dear, and now you may run away for the present, as I am going to be busy." Marjorie found King and Kitty in the billiard room, waiting for her.
"Well, you are the limit!" exclaimed King.

"How did you ever dare cut up that trick, Mops?
You got out of it pretty lucky, but I trembled in my boots at first.