Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 26: An Illustrated Magazine, Published Semi Monthly; March 15, 1891 Mattie presided at the dinner, well know ing Teenie's nervousness and shyness would make it a well nigh impossible task for her to do the honors on this night. The dinner went merrily on; and if it was a trifle uncommon, the young people were too full of youth and genuine happiness to feel much chagrin over it. When they adjourned to the parlor, Harry took his sister by the shoulders and looked into her face searchingly as he asked. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.