. Mary Baldwin Seminary Bluestocking 1909 . utyto marry. His charming parishioner meets him in his own fieldwhen she tells him that he may find her answer to his entreaties inSecond Samuel, twelfth chapter, seventh verse. What is his sur-prise and perhaps joy to find these words: And Nathan said untoDavid, thou art the man. We fancy that the wedding which fol-lowed was a happy and a joyful event. The sun is slowly disappearing over the treetops. The approach-ing twilight i*eminds us that we must cease our dreamings of thingspast and come back to the reality of things present. So we end ourmusi


. Mary Baldwin Seminary Bluestocking 1909 . utyto marry. His charming parishioner meets him in his own fieldwhen she tells him that he may find her answer to his entreaties inSecond Samuel, twelfth chapter, seventh verse. What is his sur-prise and perhaps joy to find these words: And Nathan said untoDavid, thou art the man. We fancy that the wedding which fol-lowed was a happy and a joyful event. The sun is slowly disappearing over the treetops. The approach-ing twilight i*eminds us that we must cease our dreamings of thingspast and come back to the reality of things present. So we end ourmusings with this picture of that most delightful and importantoccasion — a colonial wedding. Annie Bridgers. References: 1. Story of Pocahontas.— Cookes History of Virginia. 2. Story of Governor Nicholson.— Fiskes Old Virginia and Her Neighbors — 3. Story of Evelyn Byrd.— Some Colonial Homesteads, by Marion Harland — pp. 43-49. 4. Story of Parson Camm.— Williamsburg, the Old Colonial Capital, by Tyler — ullip Qlotn PRIZE STORY ILLSON had just returned from an extendedtour in Europe, and had invited several friendsto spend the evening with him in his apart-ments, the chief feature of the entertainmentto be the story of his adventures in had knocked about the world a good bit,and had collected many interesting curios, sowhile his friends viewed his latest collection,he arranged the chairs about the hearth andset out the tobacco. The men appeared deeply absorbed in the col-lection, when one happened to spy a curious coin. Look here, Willson, wheie did you get this coin with the Latininscription? said one. Oh, I picked it up in Rome, but there is a peculiar story con-nected with it. Ill tell you fellows about it, and then you can drawyour own conclusions, whether you think I was crazy, drunk, orasleep. It was while I was in Rome. One day I went to a curious oldbuilding to make some sketches. The room in which I was at workwas rectangu


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