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Pennie and Ethelwyn walked apart, and looked on with dignified superiority, while the others played the old games with rather more noise than usual.
"I'm always called Ethelwyn. Father and mother don't approve of names being shortened." "Oh!" said Pennie deeply impressed. Then feeling it necessary to assert herself, she added: "My name's Penelope Mary Hawthorn; but I'm always called Pennie, and sometimes the children call me Pen."
"He brought his gun along to " "Kill." "A bird to give to Jill a " "Quill?" Ethelwyn guessed after a long time. "They lingered long, they lingered " "Till," and again mother had to tell them this. "The sun went down and all was " "Still." They had both missed one, so they each had to pay a forfeit or get up a game.
Flaharty, fanning herself with her apron. Then Ethelwyn came forward. "This is my poem," she said, bowing to the audience. "A little girl lived way down East, She rose and rose, like bread with yeast, She rose above the tallest people, And far above the highest steeple. She kept right on till by and by She took a peek into the sky " "Oh, what did she see?" asked Elizabeth, interested at once.
"It's my grandmother's recipe," she said, and Ethelwyn nearly fell off her chair trying to imagine grandmother's grandmother. "I shouldn't suppose they would have been discovered then," she said, after a struggle. "Pumpkin pies don't go out of style like clothes, do they, grandmother?" "Mine never have," said grandmother proudly. "I suppose Mandy never makes pumpkin pies."
A lively argument followed, for David could not be brought to understand for some time why Andrew's expressions were not equally fit for little boys and gardeners. Ethelwyn was for the time forgotten by everyone except Pennie, who continued to think about her all that evening.
"Elder?" said Ethelwyn, after a hard think. "Yes." "I didn't really know there was such a tree, but I had heard something like it, and thought there wasn't a younger tree." "One of the little girls was named Louise and the other Minerva, and people grew to calling them by their initials, which together made " "Elm," said Beth. "They were very good children, and people used to say what a nice "
And they did, and the guests had each another box of candy for their "silvernears," besides, but Ethelwyn and Beth ate far too much, and that's the reason their next day good time began by being a bad time too. In the lovely playtime, life seems always gay. In the sober worktime, sometimes it grows gray.
"Let's pull straws," suggested Ethelwyn; so she ran to find the broom. It was she who drew the longest straw, and Beth drew a long breath, saying with cheerful philosophy, "Well, I am thankful not to leave mother. I'd prob'ly cry in the night, and worry dear grandmother."
"Haven't we saved this money, though?" they said, full of pride, and then they straightway sat down to make plans for spending it. "Let's each buy a puppy for a parting gift to Bobby and Nan," suggested Ethelwyn, as she and Beth were soon going away to visit the Home. "Yes, sir, let's," said Beth. "They dearly love Bose, and Mr. Smithers, our vegetable man, has six and will sell us two, I know."
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