28 MADGE’S MISTAKE.

and Gip can put their hats down here for the
present as they seem tired; I want to get tea
over,” she went on, “then you can all go
and play tennis if you like, for I have pro-
mised to go and read to your mother till
dinner-time.” We all fall to, therefore, with
healthy appetites, for even Freda does not
carry her intensity to the extent of starving
herself.

She sits opposite our governess, ‘Tiny and
Gip are on one side, Jack and I on the other.
I think we are a nice-looking family, taking
us all in all.

Freda is the best looking, of course, but
Tiny almost comes up to her, in my opinion,
if not quite, for she is the neatest little
figure in the world, though very small, but
her golden brown hair and bright hazel eyes
are a fortune in themselves, and if I am not
much mistaken several people I could men-
tion think so also.

Freda has bright blue eyes, which look well
with her light fuzzy hair; and although her
beauty is not much to my taste, I believe