An American girl in London . lves. It was pretty to see the little maids, and I fell to con-jecturing such a scene in connection with the domestic duchessof Chicago, but without success. Her local interest could neverbe sufficiently depended upon, for one thing. Marguerite mightplant, and Irene might water, but Arabella Maud would cer-tainly gather the fruits of their labour, if she kept her place longenough. And I doubt if the social duties of any of these ladieswould leave them time for such idylls. * Cuckoo ! The bird caught it from the piping of the veryfirst lovers very first love-dreain.
An American girl in London . lves. It was pretty to see the little maids, and I fell to con-jecturing such a scene in connection with the domestic duchessof Chicago, but without success. Her local interest could neverbe sufficiently depended upon, for one thing. Marguerite mightplant, and Irene might water, but Arabella Maud would cer-tainly gather the fruits of their labour, if she kept her place longenough. And I doubt if the social duties of any of these ladieswould leave them time for such idylls. * Cuckoo ! The bird caught it from the piping of the veryfirst lovers very first love-dreain. How well he must havelistened ! . . Cuckoo ! I bade Miss Dorothy Stacy come in when I heard her knockand voice; and she seemed to bring with her, in her innocentstrength and youth and pinkness, a very fair and harmonious AN AMERICAN GIRL IN LONDON -7S counterpart of the cowslips and the cuckoos. She came to knowif I wasnt coming down to tea. Listen ! I said, as the sweet i &~ ega! | mi V^ pi SIS Tfl-^^ifiio -^ -V ?*. TWO TIDY LITTLE MAIDS. cry came again. I was waiting till he had finished. It wasbetter than no excuse at all. 276 AN AMERICAN GIRL IN LONDON I think I can show you from here where I suspect they havestolen a nest, lazy things! answered Miss Dorothy, sympatheti-cally, and she slipped her arm round my waist as we looked outof the window together in the suspected direction. Then youdont find them tiresome ? Some people do, you know. No, Isaid, I dont. And then Miss Dorothy confided to me that shewas very glad; for, you know, she said, one cant like peoplewho find cuckoos tiresome, and we concluded that we really mustgo down to tea. At that point, however, I was obliged to askMiss Dorothy to wait until I did a little towards improving myappearance. I had quite forgotten, between the cuckoos and thecowslips, that I had come up principally to wash my face. You met our cousin on the ship crossing the Atlantic,didnt you ? the third Miss Stacy remarked, enthusiastically,o
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