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in the ht I love you when you laugh and when you sigheven when you look disdainful I never saw you look cross though Anthony Pye says you always look so but I don't wonder you look cross at him for he deserves it I love you in every dressyou seem more adorable in each new dress than the last

"'Dearest teacher, good night The sun has set and the stars are shiningstars that are as bright and beautiful as your eyes I kiss your hands and face, my sweet May God watch over you and protect you from all harm

""Your afecksionate pupil, "'Annetta Bell'"

"This extraordinary letter puzzled me not a little I knew Annetta couldn't have composed it any more than she could fly When I went to school the next day I took her for a walk down to the brook at recess and asked her to tell me the truth about the letter Annetta cried and 'fessed up freely She said she had never written a letter and she didn't kno to, or what to say, but there was bundle of love letters in her mother's top bureau drahich had been written to her by an old 'beau' "'It wasn't father,' sobbed Annetta, 'it was so for a minister, and so he could write lovely letters, but ma didn't marry him after all She said she couldn't ht the letters were sweet and that I'd just copy things out of them here and there to write you I put "teacher"

where he put "lady" and I put in soed some words I put "dress" in place of "mood" I didn't know just what a " to wear I didn't s'pose you'd know the difference I don't see how you found out it wasn't all mine You must be awful clever, teacher' "I told Annetta it was very wrong to copy another person's letter and pass it off as her own But I' found out

"'And I do love you, teacher,' she sobbed 'It was all true, even if the minister wrote it first I do love you with all my heart' "It's very difficult to scold anybody properly under such circumstances

"Here is Barbara Shaw's letter I can't reproduce the blots of the original