It's dreadful--it's really dreadful--but did you ever know anything so funny, Anne ?" "Who is your Aunt Josephine ?" "She's father's aunt and she lives in Charlottetown.

She's awfully old--seventy anyhow--and I don't believe she was EVER a little girl.

We were expecting her out for a visit, but not so soon.

She's awfully prim and proper and she'll scold dreadfully about this, I know.

Well, we'll have to sleep with Minnie May--and you can't think how she kicks." Miss Josephine Barry did not appear at the early breakfast the next morning.