of splendid mahogany planks in his shop.
I came across them one day and asked him about them. He's been
collecting them a long time and they're splendidly seasoned and he's
just waiting for a chance to make them into something."

"A light begins to break. We'll have him make our present. Are you
sure he'll make it well enough? It's got to be a crackerjack to be
suitable for Miss Gertrude."

"This is what I thought. The doctor and Miss Gertrude both like open
bookcases. I heard them say once they liked to be able to take out a
book without having to bother with a door."

"Me, too," agreed Margaret. "And I never could see the use of a back."

"That's what I say," said Helen. "I'd rather dust the books more
carefully and not have the extra weight added to the bookcase."

"You know the furniture they call 'knockdown'?"

Everybody nodded. They had all become familiar with various makes of
furniture since their attention had been called to the subject by their
summer's interests.

"I think Mr. Atwood can make us a bookcase that will consist of two
upright end pieces with holes through them where each shelf is to go.
The shelves will have two extensions on each end that will go through
these square holes and they will be held in place by wedges driven
through these extensions on the outside of the uprights. Get me?"

They all said they did.

"That's all there is to the bookcase. It can be taken to pieces in ten
minutes and packed flat and shipped from Rosemont to Oklahoma with some
chance of its reaching there unbroken; and it can be set up in another
ten minutes. What do you say?"

There wasn't a dissenting voice, and they were so pleased with the
scheme that they went to Mr. Atwood's that very afternoon, looked at
the wood, talked over the finish, and left the order. It was so simple
that the maker thought that he could have it done before the wedding
and he agreed to take it apart and pack it for shipment so that there
would be no danger of its not making its journey safely.

The wedding day was a trifle too warm, Dorothy thought as she gazed out
early in the morning and considered the flowers that must be set in
place several hours before the time when they were to be seen.

"We must take care not to have them look like those dandelions in the
book wedding that began so joyously and ended all in a wizzle," she
murmured, and she was more than ever glad that they had taken the
precaution to pick th