| vol. iii.—no. 157. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | price four cents. |
| Tuesday, October 31, 1882. | Copyright, 1882, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
NAN.
BY MRS. JOHN LILLIE,
Author of "Mildred's Bargain," "Aunt Ruth's Temptation," etc.
Chapter I.
"If a man had eight quarts of wine in one measure, and three inanother—"
Nan announced so much of a problem in her arithmetic, and then stoppedwith a little groan of despair.
"Well?" said her cousin Marian, turning from the window.
"Oh dear!" sighed Nan, "what is the use of lessons, anyway? And if wedon't go down town soon, we won't be home in time for tea."
"What if we're not?" said the third inmate of the room, a boy of aboutthirteen, who was lounging on the sofa. "But hurry up, Nan; there's nouse grumbling."
Nan planted her elbows rather more firmly into the table, clutched hercurly head with a pair of firm brown hands, and returned to the questionof the man and his wine. Marian watched the thin drizzling rain on thegarden beds, and Philip read his Robinson Crusoe, regardless of thedisorder of shells and minerals about him. For the matter of that, noone of the three young people took special heed of his or hersurroundings. Marian did not care; Philip had a boy's feeling that hecould not help untidiness; and Nan had, after two