28 AGNES.

Then she ran to her mother’s room, and awoke her with the
ery “It is found! It is found!”

Needless to say that Agnes had her shoes, and that many
other things were bought to add to the happiness of the entire
family, for the contents of the box revealed themselves unhurt
by their long burial.

As “it never rains but. it pours,” not long after an offer
came from a land association for a good part of the old place.
Reserving the house and garden, with a few more acres, the
rest was sold for a sum large enough to insure comfort to them
all for the rest of their lives, Uncle ’Rius and Mammy Pris
included. .

And so Agnes was never shoeless again, and though she
went away to school, and in time saw much of the world, her
heart always yearned for her own home, and it was a happy
girl who, when school days were over, came home “for good
and all,’ as Mammy Pris said. Uncle ’Rius, though his eyes
were too dim to see her, blessed her in his trembling voice, —
and Mammy Pris wept over her baby, and again launched
forth into tales of the family grandeur, whose fortunes were,
she felt, fully restored by the home-coming of so fine a young
lady.