SUSY S SHOR.

 

“ Now, I am ready!. This is my shop.
Who'll buy? Kittens, don’t pull off the
cloth! Now, children, what will you have
Here are cherries and crullers and pop-
corn. Nelly, you may laugh; but I know
that a shop-lady ought to wear a cap.
Grandma says so, and she knows, and she
lent me this cap herself. Now, play you
-are Mrs. Dormer, and have come to market
to buy your dinner.

“Good morning, Mrs. Dormer; are your
children all well? I see you have brought
one with you. What can I sell you to-day?
Ipeacnes’, Oh, | am Som, to. Gay my
peaches are all gone; but here are cherries
and buns, two for five cents.

“Too much? Why you always have
to pay as much as that for nice buns with
real currants in them. Ask mamma if you
don't.”