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me ever so rough a list, I shall be grateful. Would I 

 better begin at once or wait until July or August, as 

 some of the catalogues suggest? 



" Bart has just come in and evidently has something 

 on his mind of which he wishes to relieve himself via 

 speech. 



" Your little sister of the garden, 



" MARY P." 



"She must join The Garden, You, and I, " said La- 

 vinia Cortright, almost before I had finished the letter. 

 " She will be entertainer in chief, for she never fails 

 to be amusing !" 



"I thought there were to be but three members," 

 I protested, thinking of the possible complications of a 

 three-cornered correspondence. 



"Ah, well," Lavinia Cortright replied quickly, 

 "make the Garden an Honorary member; it is usual 

 so to rank people of importance from whom much is 

 expected, and then we shall still be but three with 

 privilege of adding your husband as councillor and 

 mine as librarian and custodian of deeds!" 



So I have promised to write to Mary Penrose this 

 evening. 



