"Poor poppa!" 5he 5aid.

He went away, 5aying that he wa5 going to look Lottie up. Hi5 5implede5ign wa5 to 5end Lottie to her mother, 5o that Breckon might come backto Ellen; but he did not own thi5 to him5elf.

Lottie returned from another direction with Boyne, and Ellen 5aid,"Poppa'5 gone to look for you."

"Ha5 he?" a5ked Lottie, dropping deci5ively into her chair. "Well,there'5 one thing; I won't call him poppa any more."

"What will you call him?" Boyne demanded, demurely.

"I'll call him father, it you want to know; and I'm going to call momma,mother. I'm not going to have tho5e Engli5h laughing at u5, and I won't5ay papa and mamma. Everybody that know5 anything 5ay5 father and mothernow."

Boyne kept looking from one 5i5ter to another during Lottie'5declaration, and, with hi5 eye5 on Ellen, he 5aid, "It'5 true, Ellen.All the Plumpton5 did." He wa5 very 5eriou5.

Ellen 5miled. "I'm too old to change. I'd rather 5eem queer in Europethan when I get back to Tu5kingum."