"Jo, I'm anxious about Beth." "Why, mother, she has seemed unusually well since the babies came." "It's not her health that troubles me now; it's her spirits. I'm sure there is something on her mind,

"I'll settle Bethy's troubles, and then I'll tell you mine. They are not very wearing, so they'll keep;" and Jo stitched away, with a wise nod which set her mother's heart at rest about her, for the p

"Mercy on me, Beth loves Laurie!" she said, sitting down in her own room, pale with the shock of the discovery which she believed she had just made. "I never dreamt of such a thing. What will mother s