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came to joining in conversation with Aunt Amy and Mary. These lessons went on daily, and, after a day or two, Evie lived in his feminine existence and did not wear his male things at all. To give him an even more feminine figure, she got him to undress, and by now he had lost all feelings of embarrassment and readily complied with her every suggestion, and she clasped the waist-cincher round his waist and pulled it in as much as possible. Then he had to dress again and continue with his training. Day by day she tightened the cincher a little more, and even bought a smaller size for him. He found it irksome at first, but afterwards gloried in the tiny waist-line it achieved. One outfit Phyllis liked in particular for him and that was a mini-frock with mini-slip underneath and nylon tights instead of the usual stockings. After all, she argued, he had such shapely legs, they should be seen, and, when he looked at himself in the mirror and posed naughtily with the skirt-line drawn up even more, he laughingly agreed. Whether all the adjustments she suggested were really necessary, or whether it was a desire of hers to see and feel the extent of his effemination, no-one will ever know, but it was noticeable how often she found it necessary for him to raise his skirts for her to test the straightness of his seams and the tautness of his hose clipped to the little be-ribboned garters, and certainly he made a most girlish picture as he stood thus, pulled up skirts revealing his long shapely legs and his dainty undies.

Uncle John had soon got used to having a "niece" round the house instead of a nephew, and he watched with almost a fatherly interest as Evie blossomed forth more and more as the girl he was meant to be. When Phyllis suggested at the end of the second week. that it was time to sally forth and try out the im- personation on the world at large, Uncle John agreed at once, and Evie felt a tremor of excitement course through him. And so it was that they drove to a nearby town and did some shopping, and Evie got a sense of real satisfaction at being accepted by every-

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