200 A New Gate.

 

As for May, when she looked at
them, the thought that came into
her sisterly young head was, that she
would much rather have her Johnny
grow up to be a bold, noble look-
ing youth, like some of them, than
an awkward, clumsy sort of fellow,
like the Johns, and Toms, and
Timothys who were her neigh-
bours.

And so, what did May do? Why,
she went over to her grandfather
one day, all by herself. And she
asked her good, clever grandfather
to make them some things such as
soldiers carry.

Of course, he laughed, and won-
dered why a girl should want swords