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Updated: October 18, 2026
"No, but she hed a piece o' that pretty wrinkly paper jes' like the lamp-shades in the winders, and she said the baskets was made o' that, and she was buyin' some ribbon to match for handles and bows." "Oh, I wish I could see one of 'em," said Lizzie. "I went to a kinnergarden school wonst when I was a little kid," struck in Becky here, "and we was put up there to makin' baskets out o' paper."
They were all of them impressed with this fact, when, a few minutes after, the wary Becky agreed to show Lizzie what she knew of "kinnergarden" basket-making, if Lizzie would agree to pay her for her trouble by giving her materials enough to make a basket for herself. "Ain't she a sharp one?" commented one of the girls to another when they had left the lunch-room. "Ain't she, though?
"Well, yer'll hev to wait." "Why, you told Lizzie you'd show her how to make baskets out o' paper!" "But I didn' say I'se goin' to show anybody else. This ain't a free kinnergarden. These are private lessons." A shriek of laughter went up at this, while somebody cried, "And private lessons must be paid for, mustn't they, Becky?" "Every time," answered Becky, with unruffled coolness.