The Attic

The Portrait Points

Gems from Shakespeare

The Party

Note:—Thanks are due to the publishers of The Young Churchman for courteous permission to reprint chapters of this book which appeared as a serial in that publication under the title of “Aunt Nan’s Legacy.”

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Illustrations

“I didn’t!” protested John. “It was—Something, I don’t know what—that spoke”

Oh, Katy, what do you suppose Aunt Nan meant this time?

Things that had been waiting through Generations of Aunt Nan’s Ancestors for some one to make them Useful

“Oh, they are very Beautiful,” said Mary

From drawings by Helen Mason Grose.

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SURPRISE HOUSE

CHAPTER I THE HOUSE

ON the main street of Crowfield stood a little old red house, with a gabled roof, a pillared porch, and a quaint garden. For many weeks it had been quite empty, the shutters closed and the doors locked; ever since the death of Miss Nan Corliss, the old lady who had lived there for years and years.

It began to have the lonesome look which a house has when the heart has gone out of it and nobody puts a new heart in. The garden was growing sad and careless. The flowers drooped and pouted, and leaned peevishly against one another. Only the weeds seemed glad,—as undisturbed weeds do,—and made the most of their holiday to grow tall and impertinent 

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