Filipe's Birthday

Frances Dean, though without much fortune, is a peach of a girl, and at the summer camp a number of most eligible young men are bitter rivals for her favor. She is an ardent angler, and her suitors pretend much enthusiasm for this sport, and suffer much inconvenience. The other and wealthier girls of the camp are thrown into a flutter of excitement by the news that the young Earl of Durham is to visit the place, and his failure to appear causes intense disappointment. Jack Deering appears on the lake. He is a modest, unassuming young fellow, and attracts the attention of no one except Frances. Jack and Frances soon form a warm friendship, based on their mutual delight in fishing. Observing this friendship, the original suitors jealously increase the ardor of their attentions to Frances, who at length intimates that she will give her hand to the suitor catching the largest fish of the season