t in Gopher
Prairie.

X

From the "Heavenly Harp and Trumpet":

Mrs. Priscilla Kennicott, one of our most popular angels, left these
parts last Tuesday for an extended visit to the Earth. Mrs. K. confided
to Ye Editor that she would probably take up her residence in Gopher
Prairie, Minn., under the name of Carol Kennicott. The "Harp and
Trumpet" felicitates the citizens of Gopher Prairie on their acquisition
of a charming and up-to-date young matron whose absence will be keenly
regretted by her many friends in the heavenly younger married set. Good
luck, Priscilla!

XI

Heaven.

Five years later.

The monthly meeting of the Celestial Browning Club.

Seated in the chair reserved for the guest of honor, the manager.

The meeting opens as usual with a reading by Brother Robert Browning
of his poem "Pippa Passes"; as he proclaims that "God's in his heaven,
all's right with the world", the members applaud and the manager rises
and bows.

The chairman announces that "today we take up a subject in which I am
sure we are all extremely interested--the popular literature of the
United States".

The members listen to selected extracts from the writings of Gene
Stratton-Porter, Zane Grey, and Harold Bell Wright; at the conclusion
they applaud and the manager again bows.

"I am sure", says the chairman, "that we are all glad to hear that
things are going so nicely in the United States." (Applause.) "And now,
in conclusion, Brother Voltaire has requested permission to address us
for a few minutes, and I am sure that anything Brother Voltaire has to
say will be eminently worthwhile."

Brother Voltaire rises and announces that he has listened with interest
to the discussion of American literature; that he, too, rejoices that
all is well in this best of all possible United States; and that he
hopes they will pardon him if he supplements the program by reading
a few extracts from another extremely popular American book recently
published under the name of "Main Street".

XII

At the next meeting of the Celestial Browning Club it was unanimously
voted that the privileges of the club be denied Brother Voltaire for the
period of one year, and that the name of Priscilla Kennicott be stricken
from the list of non-resident members of heaven.

CHAPTER FOUR

THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH

In the Manner of F. Scott Fitzgerald

This story occurs under the blue skies and bluer laws of Puritan New
England, in the d