The next morning, when Davie was out in the little garden hoeing and whistling, a strange thing happened to him; he received a letter—the first letter with his name on the envelope which he had ever received. It was short and to the point: After you left me yesterday two witnesses to your honesty and faithfulness, as well as to your good temper under provocation, called upon me, and made me decide to give you a month’s trial in the store if you still wish the situation. Call on me to-day if possible; if not, to-morrow will do. Yours sincerely, EDWARD HAMMOND. “Mother,” said Davie, as they went all over the plans for the third time, “who could have called on him who knows anything about me? I can’t imagine.” PANSY. [Illustration: A SUMMER DAY IN THE COUNTRY.] [Illustration: A STITCH AT A TIME.] ABOUT ST. AUGUSTINE. BY THE PANSIES. THE way it came to be called St. Augustine was this: it used to be named Seloy on the river Dolphins. That was when it belonged to the Indians. The French people named the river, and they gave it that name because they saw a great many dolphins playing in the mouth of the river. After awhile the Spaniards came and took the town on the day which was sacred to their saint, Augustine, so they named both town and river San Augustin. RUFUS HUNTER. * * * * * IN the American Revolution Florida was the only colony which was loyal to the king. When they heard the news of the Declaration of Independence they burned John Hancock and Samuel Adams in effigy, calling them rebels. After that some of the “Liberty Boys,” as our soldiers were called, stole powder from the British brig _Betsey_, which lay at anchor at San Augustin and slipped away with it, to be used at Bunker Hill. HARVEY DENNISON. * * * * * I READ about the services which they used to hold in St. Augustine on Palm Sunday. They marched from the church to the platform of the convent, where was a beautiful altar trimmed with flowers and fruits. The congregation knelt on the ground while the priest said mass, then the nuns took baskets of rose petals which were brought by many little children in the procession, and strewed them before the altar in honor of the Virgin. LAURA EASTMAN. * * * * *