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cuffs & front of the gown were heavily braided in white & the whole had a trim perfectly appearance very becoming Monday Oct to her slight graceful figure. Ned had heard May say that Mabel's fiancee had been called west unexpectedly the thought that as she look bored [husband?] that was & why she appeared so abstracted Maud Wood jour Not seeing anyone else whom he cared to speak to just then he went over to her for he greatly admired beauty & Mabel was beautiful. He used to tell May that if Mabel could only talk a little every body would rave over her. Why [?] Phillips about Miss Saunders he asked as he took the seat beside her. Oh I don't know something about one of the new plays she replied then you don't care for plays he said thinking that anyone who wanted to interest her had a hard [trick?] Yes I like them she said that is I like some but Mr Phillips talks as though it were one of the most important things in the world whether the heroine commits suicide & gets married in the last act. I can't see that it makes much difference to ordinary people. Oh then you think that if people don't trouble themselves about the affairs that don't concern them directly they're better off, he said. I don't supose I think much about it anyway she said but I don't see any sense in getting so interested in anything that isn't real & doesn't exist except in somebody's imagination she replied. Then you would have liked to have lived in the Middle Ages when people acted

keen eyes & who suspected that Saunders was fond of May waited hoping that the girl would give her her confidence if there were any to give. But May said nothing & it was soon indeed there time for thisin the first place it seemed to her indelicate to talk about attentions which were so ambiguous & in the next place she didn't know how she regarded him. She wanted to marry a rich man if she married at all she had good reason to know what misery can be caused by lack of money & she sometimes felt that the only way in which she could give substantial proof of her fondness for her father would be by giving him a rich son-in-law. But it seemed dreadful to be thinking at all in that way of a man who had never asked her to be his wife she felt that 125672 it was setting her cap a thing she disliked both in expression 25672 & reality. The only thing to do was not to think about Saunders 5672 at all & this she tried to accomplish. The evening was a pleasant [?] as they always were at Mrs. Merriam's. There was plenty of time for tete a tete & yet there was not enough of it to be stupid. Ned on coming in looked around as usual for May but when he saw that she was supplied with a cavalier in the person of [Jim?] Saunders he thought he would not go near her just then. Over in the corner was Mabel Saunders folding & unfolding a large fan & trying to look interested in something that Harry Phillips was telling to her & Violet Wilson. Mabel looked unusually pretty that night. She wore a gown of a neutral cloth blue over a white the flat [collar?]

on the most impersonal subjects. May was greatly puzzled to know just how he felt towards her. Mrs Merriam who had

When the young bee is first hatched it has hardly room enough to turn in the cell but as it eats the paste the space becomes larger so that the bee has room in which to grow. In a row of cells the worms are of different ages and of course of sizes. Those in the lower cells are older than those in the upper, because after the first cell is done it is a long time before the last one is finished. The worms that are in the upper cells are hatched last. Of course the young in the lowest cell must come out at the bottom of the hollow in the post. If he should try to work upwards he would disturb the rest. Therefore the egg is so placed that the head of the worm will always point downwards. The mother-bee digs a hole at the bottom of the long tube which leads from the lowest cell to the open air. Sometimes she makes another near the middle of the tube. The bees find through this passage an easy way out. They always work their way downward by piercing the floor of their cells which they can do [such?]

flushed a little. Saunders had contrived to be near her quite frequently since the night he had made his odd remark & though his conversation was apt to flag & was always

It is very curious to watch the wood piercers at their work. In the spring they look about for dead or rotten wood in which to make a house for their young ones. When the female has found an old wooden post that will do, she bores into it for about half an inch, and then changes the direction, making a hollow half an inch in diameter, which runs parallel with the sides of the post and is about twelve or fifteen inches long. She works very hard and has no help from the male. If you should look about a foot from the post you should see on the ground little heaps of saw-dust almost as coarse as if it had been made by a hand-saw. The only tools that this little insect has to work with are her strong jaws. She divides this hole into ten rooms each about one inch deep and roof of one makes the floor of another. This floor is made from wood-dust mixed with glue from the animals body. Before the cell is closed it is filled with honey an egg is also placed in each cell.

A Preposition is a a word used to show the relation between a following noun or pronoun and some other word.

supposed wrong letting it blaze forth now & then where any real or fancied provocation set it going. She would have laughed at the idea that her mother's fondness for May had really all faded away but it was [true?] May had [?] [grown?] her [gone?] beyond her & she resented the fact. She showed her feeling by a continual fault-finding & [taunting?] which May would have found unbearable if she had not been too much occupied with her father's unhappiness to think much about it. [To?] be sure Mrs. Stone had much right on her side. May was given to sitting down and [mourning?] over her griefs rather instead of giving her time to her daily duties or makng much effort to find a way out of her troubles. She was not practical & that was a trial to her practical mother & Mrs. Stone thought May ought not to complain of having a hard life when she had always had plenty to eat & to wear. You didn't have look out to see where your bread & butter's coming from she would say to her daughter & I don't know why you should go around looking as though you'd lost your last friend, the misunderstanding & lack of appreciation between May & her mother was unfortunate for both of them it embittered their lives & added an unnecessary

grief to their inevitable sorrows. Sometimes May understood this & one afternoon she made up her mind to go to her friend Mrs Merriam and ask her what she should do to make herself a pleasanter companion. /the two had been fond of each other ever since Mrs Merriam had come to H[alberston?] years before & her friends pretty home had been May's refuge & resting-place from many of her daily frets. She had for Mrs Merriam that feeling of reverence admiration of respectful love that nearly most girls havefor an older woman sometimes & that corresponds to her hero-worship of their brothers. It was quite late when she started this afternoon & she hurried along thinking of anything rather than the steps she was taking the ground has crossed with sun & as she went was a crossing a few steps [just?] [?] Mrs [Merriam's?] a sleigh being driven rapidly by 1 of her men came down the road May had on a hood &so did not hear the sleigh bells & only looked up when one of the men shouted She turned quickly to go back slipped & fell in the [crossing?] the man attempted to pull back his horse but it was going at a good gait & he was so close to her by that time that it was impossible to stop. She must inevitably have been over if a man who had been a little distance behind her had not leaped to her side & dragged her a little out of the way [so?] very little that the runners of the sleigh passed over one of the floating ends of the scarf she had about her head the men who were driving stopped long enough to see that no harm

had been done & then went over & May who had not lost consciousness but who seemed for a minute to be a sort of trance without power to move looked up at her rescuer. It was Harry Phillips My God Miss Stone you aren't hurt he said when he saw her face. You aren't hurt he said breathlessly the sound of his voice brought back her power of action. She shook her head & then attempted to rise. For a moment the sense of her deserted her & she realized [only?] the absurdity of the position. To Harry's great surprise she began to laugh. He helped her up & noticing how she was [breathing?] ask if he might not walk with her as far as she was going. Don't be afraid of [I shouldn't have hysterics?] or do anything absurd and only going [?] a step as far as Mrs Merriam's she replied but I wish you would come in with me for perhaps then I shall be able to thank you properly for saving my life. Neither spoke until they reached the house there was so much to say that they both felt unable to begin. May walked a little awkwardly & was very white They found Mrs Merriam in her [?] parlor, May felt that she must explain how Harry happened to have come so she tried to make as light of it as possible. I have had the most exciting adventure she began & then the full sense of the death she had escaped broke upon & She Her laugh changed to crying & she was [?] to give in to an attack of the very hysterics she had thought of with scorn. Why May my dear child whatever is the matter asked Mrs. Merriam astonished at this inexplicable conduct. May tried to talk but only sobbed the harder & Mrs. Merriam in despair turned to Harry for an explanation. He too

was a little white but he said in answer to the look Miss Stone was very nearly run over She fell on the crossing & there was a Signature means sign. sleigh Signature is placed at the beginning coming of the staff. which Signature contains clef key and time barely The clef places G. on the second line escaped The figures tell the time going over The sharps and flats the key, and her. May are placed between the clef and time tried to A scale is 8 sounds in regular order add that but for him the sleigh would have gone over her but she only sobbed the harder Mrs Merriam who saw at once that May had lost her self-control took off her wraps soothing her with gentle hands & urging her to go up-stairs & lie down But May was determined to conquer herself & when Mrs Merriam saw this she began to talk to Harry on indifferent subjects. By & by the crying grew fainter & fainter & after a time May said impulsively I hope you won't think me a perfect idiot for acting so [?] the feeling of what a horrible death it would have been flashed across me suddenly & I could not help it. I have thought sometimes--I suppose everybody has--that it would be a pleasant thing to die. but O my God that [sled?] [driving?] was dreadful I had a glimpse of the horse's hoofs as they it came but I didn't mind so much then I seemed to be numb stupefied & it was all over in a minute but when I tried to tell you [I remember?]

[find?] how awful it was. You must not talk any more about it dear interrupted Mrs. Merriam. We can understand how you felt. But you haven't told me what it was that saved you. It was Mr Phillips said May he was behind me & he ran & dragged me away a second later he couldn't have done it I can't thank him I don't know how if But Harry [hi?] be in don't say any more about it please Miss Stone anyone could have done what I did if you only knew how thankful I am that it was in time, I can't bear to think of it said Mrs Merriam who was white & cold herself at the idea of May's danger. Let's try to talk about something else. It had been just dusk when May & Harry & out of consideration for May's tear-stained face Mrs Merriam did not have the lamp lighted so they sat in the twilight until May declared that she must go home. Just as they were leaving the same Mrs Merriam said I have almost forgotten that I intended to write to you Mr Phillips if I had not seen you to-night Miss Stone & a few other of the young people are coming to spend a little time with me next Wednesday evening & I should be glad to have you make one of them. Harry accepted the invitation gladly & Mrs. Merriam added that she would like to have him feel at liberty to call any Wednesday when she was usually at home. When Harry left May at the When Harry reached the her gate May held out her hand & said impulsively I wish you would promise me that if ever I can attempt to repay you in any way little or great you will let me do it. Harry looked at her for a

minute & then said Miss Stone perhaps you will think that what I am going to say is chilled & unnatural but indeed I say it with all my heart. The chance of being of use to you is the greatest pleasure that could come to me. May withdrew her hand & with a confused good-night went in. Harry went on down the street without the slightest idea what he was doing When he came to a corner he stopped & remembered that he wanted to go home into the house where he lived & that he was walking in precisely the opposite direction. WhenHe went directly to his room when he did reach the house took a book [one?] of the new novels & sat down to read When supper-time came he went down-stairs but in spite of his effort he could eat nothing. He tried to keep himself from thinking of what had happened from the vision of May's white face that was continually [rising?] up before him & so he read feverishly eagerly until after midnight. But it was of no ended use for when the book was finished & he went to bed the [tarnished?] thoughts came up with more than the reappeared. Finally he decided that he might as well think of it all was it have done with it. The thing that troubled him was that the words, in the shock of May's great danger he had suddenly realized that he had for her a feeling which he tried to express in words when he told he that to be of service to her was the greatest pleasure that could come to him. He thought on his whole life & his feeling for other girls whom he had known