A SURPRISE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 13, 1 April 1893, Page 311

A SURPRISE.

Stanley Ober stood at the window looking across the meadow at the small evergreens that skirted the wood beyond, and wishing it were Christmas time again—for the tree had been such a delight ; but it was nearly Easter, and there would be Easter eggs and Easter cards, and a small party, when all the cousins would be there. • Mamma !’ he cried, suddenly.

* Well ’’ asked mamma. Stanley went nearer, and talked earnestly for several minutes ; then mamma’s face wore a smile, and Stanley was beaming and mysterious. The party came off on Easter Monday, and all the cousins were there. A merry time they had of it with all sorts of Easter games, and then came tea, with pretty sandwiches and cakes and ices and fruit, and then a door was opened into another room, where stood a tree hung with the most charming of Easter tokens ! Dainty baskets of flowers, one for each guest, painted eggs suspended by gay ribbons, beautiful cards and home-made trifles, and at the top of the tree were sprays of lovely Easter lilies that looked so pure and white against their background of dark green. The Easter tree was a great success, and the cousins voted Stanley’s Easter party to be the most delightful they had ever known.