‘Thursday morning, the grand morning, has arrived,--nay, it is nearly eleven o’clock, and the children of six schools, their teachers and their mothers, and perhaps scores of women besides, will be on the tiptoe of expectation,--and our _kahar has never returned_!!! We don’t know whether Mrs. T. is coming; we don’t know whether she is sticking half-way on the road, waiting for the horse which we offered to send twelve miles, _if_ she required it! Like the famous little pig, we have eaten all the bread and butter; and if the grand lady arrives--without that faithless kahar--what shall we give her to eat? I urged Florrie at least to send to the city for meat; but she fears that in the absence of the cook the guest may arrive.