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at various intervals claimed my attention. It is quite natural that I should go with the young ladies spasmodically. If I had the time and opportunity to make love to them all, why, bless the dear creatures, I'd love 'em all equally and proportionally.

But I have an education to obtain yet, and a competence to gain, before I go to housekeeping with somebody else than you and Auntie.

So as I have told you so often before, you need never worry about me, I'm old enough, able enough, capable to take care of my own self, as the

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last few years have shown (or should have) shown you.

You are again troubling yourself with Margie I see. You rather harshly intimate that she will not fully appreciate your present. You misjudge her, and speak unjustly. She is not quite such an "ingrat" as you would have me believe. I do not like to see you demean Margie. I fear that like many another mother, you are too much prejudiced against her, because your boy fell in love with her instead of somebody else. It is a wrong spirit to entertain against Margie and I