olded in quiet rest; and it is years,
too, since Mary and Celestia went where the shining is brighter than
the sunlight and softer than the moon.

But the twins are not alone. Bless you! I should think not! First,
here is Amy Starbird, with a pair of pictures she has painted from the
very paint-box Davie gave her on her own last birthday. And here is
Amy's daughter Rose, with twin marble babies tucked up in a marble crib
on top of a marble match box; and Rose, all this time, is Davie's
daughter as well as Amy's.

And here is a bright bevy of boys and girls, some of them with Lily's
blue eyes and Lily's fair hair, each bringing some double gift for
their mother and Uncle Davie.

There are pairs of wristings and pairs of neckties, books in two
volumes, and double-frosted cakes; there is a pair of china slippers
with a pair of babies on the toes; there is a crystal vase held up by
two crystal swans, and a vase of silver in the form of a chariot drawn
by two doves; for everything must be in pairs for the birthday of the
twins.

Then, last of all, Davie gave to Lily a covered box, and when she
opened it she saw within an exquisitely embroidered velvet pen-wiper,
with a beautiful tortoise-shell cat lying upon it, and, playfully
jumping over her back, were two of the most charming tortoise-shell
kittens ever seen.

The mother-cat had around her neck a blue ribbon, and on the ribbon was
written these words,--

"Here is your cat, Lily,--after fifty years."

FRANCES LEE.

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