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ether again?" "So you think there is nothing Nature can't do?" Dr. Page mused, with apparent irrelevance. "How about the sun-dial itself?" "Oh, Nature will attend to that, too." "She will, will she? And in what particular tin cracker-box should you look for it to come up?" "It wouldn't be polite to say," Olivia declared, looking with unmistakable significance straight into her father's face. "Saucebox!" he chuckled. And when, in early June, the brass disk of the sun-dial had begun its record of happy hours, and still Olivia toiled with unabated zeal at her garden, the rose of health blooming ever brighter in her face, a great sense of satisfaction and approval took possession of her father's mind. But he only remarked, in a casual manner, as they sat together on the white bench one fragrant sunset hour: "After all, I'm not sure but Nature's biggest miracle has been performed in the saucebox." And Olivia, smiling softly, answered: "I told you, you know, that there isn't any place too unlikely for Nature to set things going in!" BAGGING A GRANDFATHER "I'll warrant that 'he, she, or it' will come! Di usually bags her game!" The speaker, Mr. Thomas Crosby, must have had implicit faith in his daughter's prowess to venture such a confident assertion as that, for he was quite in the dark as to who "he, she, or it" might be. It was a cozy November evening, when open fires and friendly drop-lights are in order, and the three grown-folks of the family were enjoying these luxuries. Mr. Crosby was supposed to be reading his paper, but he had a sociable way of letting fall an occasional item of interest, or of letting fall the paper itself, at the first hint of interest in the remarks of his wife and daughter. Only within a very short time had there been three grown-folks in the family, unless, indeed, we count Rollo, the Gordon setter, who had attained his majority years ago. Di, who was but just turned sixteen, really did not like to remember how very recently she had been sent to bed at eight o'clock! Could Mr. Crosby have guessed the scheme which was occupying the active brain of the young person engaged in embroidering harmless bachelor's buttons upon a linen centrepiece, he would have been very much astonished,--whether pleasurably or otherwise, events alone must show. And since events had been taken in hand by Di the revelation was not likely to be long delayed. The incident which h
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