ll, and he _couldn't_ look up when those people were praising him
so.

By this time there were lamps lighted in every window of Dr. Gray's
house, and even in the trees; and though the moon was shining her best,
Major Patten, with the wonderful fur cap, asked Preston to stand beside
him and hold a lamp, that he might see to read his music.

Preston stood there with the light shining on his pure, good face; and
then the men played, "See the Conquering Hero comes," the
"Marsellaise," and a dozen other tunes, while their uniforms made such a
dazzle of red and gold that Flaxie could not help dancing about like a
wild thing for joy.

It was not so with thoughtful Milly. She snuggled down on the piazza
beside Julia, and looked on quietly.

"I'm glad Preston was so good," thought she; "perhaps he wouldn't have
been so very good if he hadn't had those blind eyes and spectacles. How
God must love him! Papa says Julia is like a little candle, and I'm sure
Preston is like a candle too. Why, where _is_ Flaxie going now?"

Flaxie was flying down the hill after Henry, the stable-boy. She had
heard her papa tell him to go to Mr. Springer's for some ice-cream, and
she wanted to say: "Get it pink, Henry; get the pinkest ice-cream you
can find!"

Then when the men were seated all about the yard and on the piazza,
eating their pink ice-cream, somebody threw up a rocket; and that was
the end of the gayest, brightest evening our little friend Flaxie
Frizzle had ever known in her life.

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COPYRIGHT, 1884, BY LEE AND SHEPARD.

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