LETTY’S.: PICTURE:

Letty was very fond of pictures, and in the Long Gallery
at the Hall there were ever so many pictures, enough to
satisfy any little girl. - There were. pictures of fields and
flowers, castles and battles, soldiers and sailors, big people
and little people, old men and’ women and . children—
pictures of all. kinds. But there was one picture which
Letty thought was prettier than them all. It was a
picture of a dear old lady talking to two little girls. The
old lady’s face was very sweet and lovable, and she
looked as if she were the kind of old lady you would
like to kiss, for you would feel sure that her cheeks would
be as soft as velvet. The little girls were pretty too;
they were both dressed in old-fashioned dresses, and one
of them wore a queer cap. It certainly was a_ pretty
picture, though perhaps you would not have admired
it as much as Letty did. Would you like to know
how it was that Letty was so fond of the picture, and why —
she called it hers?. It was because there was in it a por-
trait of her Mother. Yes, once upon a time, Letty’s own

Mother had looked just like the girl with the queer cap.