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absolutely ridiculous for you to think of 
promenading through the sun with this 
beast. Guppy shall guard the pig. You’ll 
take care of that pig, won’t you, Guppy?” 
"Yep,” agreed that eager youth. 
"Gome on, Bill.” 
Shepherd picked up the green um¬ 
brella and closed it with a snap. 
"But—Aunt Elizabeth,” the girl de¬ 
murred. "She will be angry. She will 
say I’m not fit for Rivington Street.” 
“I advise you not to introduce those 
subjects at this moment,” said Walter, 
pulling her hand within the crook of his 
elbow, in an old-fashioned but an ex¬ 
tremely comfortable way. “Here is the 
path. Good-by, Guppy.” 
Guppy, however, was already invisible 
in a rapidly moving cloud of dust, frim 
which the indignant squeak of the pig 
drifted back indistinctly to the Inver’s 
Well. 
Lydia laid her hat on the bench, and a 
bashful breeze played with her hair. 
Shepherd brought her some icy spring 
water in a pocket drinking cup. They 
elaborately discussed the mechanism of 
the cup, and then, after a pause, they 
talked of other things. Perhaps it is 
unnecessary to specify the topics; Aunt 
Elizabeth and Rivington Street did not 
figure importantly among them. 
“Let us go back across country,” sug¬ 
gested Walter, when it was time. 
“Very well,” said Miss Farrow. “1 
think we can find a way along the 
brook. It will be better than the road.” 
The way along the brook excelled the 
road in every particular. It led them 
through thick woods where in the half 
light they seemed to be quite alone in 
the world. But on a ridge which skirted 
a cleared hollow Shepherd was reminded 
to the contrary. 
"Look,” he whispered, grasping Ly¬ 
dia’s arm. This was no effort, because 
she was close beside him. 
“It’s the botany class,” she answered, 
and they both peered down through the 
interlocking leaves. 
Miss Gibbs, beneath an incongruous 
sunbonnet, towered in the center of a 
circle of awed and perspiring urchins. 
A swamp iily, evidently the subject of 
her discourse, nodded dejectedly in her 
uplifted hand. The botany class did not 
appear to be interested. 
“Let’s run,” said Shepherd. 
“Wait,” said Miss Farrow! “don’t you 
hear something coming? Oh, what is 
it? Oh, what in the world is it?” 
On the other side of the clearing 
where the class was in session the 
bushes were swaying and crackling as 
if a miniature cyclone were careering 
through them. Aunt Elizabeth’s schol¬ 
ars dispersed and dashed expectantly to¬ 
ward the disturber of scholastic quiet; 
Miss Gibbs herself remained rigid. Not, 
however, for long. 
“Sho, sho, sho!” cried Aunt Elizabeth, 
waving the lily at a maddened pig, who 
came for her at a gait as near to a gal¬ 
lop as pigs achieve. “Sho, sho!” 
“Hi!” screamed Guppy. 
“Hey!” howled the botany students, 
and performed a war dance. 
The pig flew between Aunt Elizabeth’s 
feet and there fell prone, panting in ex¬ 
tremis, and the lady sat involuntarily at 
his side. She wap speechless when Shep¬ 
herd assisted her to rise. In the mean¬ 
time Guppy and his cohorts had man¬ 
acled the pig rushlessly. 
“Lydia Farrow,” gasped Miss Gibbs, 
“what does this mean? Are you insane? 
Are you trying to insult me?” 
“Please ma’am”-began Guppy. 
“Silence! Lydia, did you order this 
outrage?” 
“Stand by the boy, anyhow,” mur¬ 
mured Shepherd in Miss Farrow’s ear. 
“Aunt, it was all an accident, and I’m 
to blame,” exclaimed Lydia. “It was not 
Guppy’s fault, really it wasn’t.” 
“I’ve endured your incompetence long 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
491 
enough,” answered Aunt Elizabeth, lead¬ 
ing, somewhat stiffly, the return march 
to the farmhouse. “I do not see how I 
can recommend you to dear Miss Stein.” 
“Who is dear Miss Stein?” asked Shep¬ 
herd. 
“She’s the head worker at the settle¬ 
ment,” said the aunt. 
“Oh,” said Shepherd. “Then it’s all 
very easy,” and he smiled at Miss Far¬ 
row cheerfully. 
“What do you mean?” 
“I mean. Miss Gibbs, that Lydia and 
I”- 
“Never mind now,” put in the girl, 
reddening. “Aunt Elizabeth, Walter is 
anxious to give you lots of money for 
the Fresh Air Farm.” 
“That is good of him.” 
“Yes, Miss Gibbs, I think I’m bound 
to.” 
“Well, I don’t see why, although we 
shall be glad enough to have it,” said 
Aunt Elizabeth, and she turned to re¬ 
gard her charges, straggling along be¬ 
hind and bearing the pig aloft, like a 
sacrificial victim. 
“Shall I tell you why I think I’m 
bound to?” proposed Shepherd. “You 
see, Lydia and I”- 
“I do wish you would wait,” Lydia 
interrupted. “Look at Guppy. I wonder 
where he got that name.” 
“It’s a contraction for Cupid,” said 
Shepherd solemnly. 
“Cupid!” sniffed Miss Gibbs. “Cupid!” 
—Edward Boltwood, in the Independent. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Little boys are always attractive 
dressed in sailor fashion. The very 
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head, in Peter Thompson style, with a 
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