"_Item._ I give and devise to my granddaughter, Bettie Curtis, my negro woman, little Bet, and her future increase, to her and her assigns forever. Also my largest looking-glass, my walnut writing desk and drawers, a square dining-table, one bed, bedstead, bolster, one pillow, one blanket and pair sheets, white Virginia cloth counterpains and purple curtains, my red and white tea china, teaspoons, and the other half of my peuter and crockeryware, and the remainder of my iron kitchen furniture. "_Item._ I give and devise to my grandson, George Washington, my next best glass, one bed, bedstead, bolster, one pillow, one pair sheets, one blanket and counterpain. "_Item._ I devise all my wearing apparel to be equally divided between my granddaughters, Bettie Curtis, Fannie Ball, and Milly Washington,--but should my daughter, Bettie Lewis, fancy any one two or three articles, she is to have them before a division thereof. "Lastly, I nominate and appoint my said son, General George Washington, executor of this, my will, and as I owe few or no debts, I direct my executor to give no security or appraise my estate, but desire the same may be allotted to my devisees, with as little trouble and delay as may be, desiring their acceptance thereof as all the token I now have to give them of my love for them. "In witness thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 20th day of May, 1788. "MARY WASHINGTON. "Witness, JOHN FERNEYHOUGH. "Signed, sealed and published in the presence of the said Mary Washington and at her desire. "JNO. MERCER. "JOSEPH WALKER." * * * * * _WORKS BY MRS. ALICE MORSE EARLE_ =STAGE-COACH AND TAVERN DAYS= With many illustrations from photographs. =8vo. Cloth. $2.50= "Not the least valuable items in her book are the pictures with which it is lavishly provided,--admirable reproductions, most of them, of old taverns, tavern signs and bills, stage coaches, and a number of copies of the paintings of Mr. Henry, who has made the stagecoach days of the United States a special study."--_New York Tribune._ "Mrs. Earle is no mere compiler. Her books represent original research, combined with a happy faculty of knowing what to tell and what to omit. They are not only authentic, they are interesting, full of human nature, and touched throughout with a delightful sense of humor."--_Chicago Tribune._ =OLD TIME GARDENS= A Book of the Sweet o' the Year. With many illustrations from photographs. =8vo. Cloth. $2.00, net= "Every page is laden with things interesting, attractive, and curiously and effectively instructive. Mrs. Earle's knowledge of American local traditionary lore, as we have long since learned, is matchless."--_Booklovers' Bulletin_, Philadelphia.