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One was pieced when Jack was a baby, one was Mary's work and property, and another was quilted in one day by the neighbor women on the occasion of a quilting-bee, which Mrs. Sapp proceeded to describe in all its particulars. As darkness settled down, the other members of the family came in from their various chores, and, as the evenings were yet cool, a fire was made in the fireplace.
One form of merry-making which was in high favor among the women of that day was the quilting-bee. These quilters of the long ago must have been accomplished needlewomen, as evidenced by the heirlooms in "diamond," "rose," "basket," and other quaint designs which have descended to us from our great-grandmothers.
You really ought to try." After this Elizabeth did try, spasmodically, for nearly a week, but gradually fell back into her old idle habits of compiling landscapes and dreaming dreams. Miss Gordon questioned Miss Hillary next in regard to the difficult case. There was an afternoon quilting-bee at Mrs.
So the quilting-bee ended in a great deal of talk, and John McIntyre's condition remained unbettered. The Elmbrook Temperance League next took him up. Spectacle John Cross was president of the society, and was assured that it was drink that ailed John McIntyre.
Steenwyck," but no reply to an invitation to a quilting-bee beginning "Dear Mrs. Steenwyck." Nevertheless, if one feels that note-paper that does not bear the family escutcheon is not quite all that note-paper should be, it is permissible to have it stamped neatly at the top of the first sheet.
Finally she abandoned the subject with something like despair, and asked a question in regard to the neighborhood, which made Miss Prue say quickly, "Oh! that reminds me, Sara, I want you to be sure to go to Betty's quilting-bee; you will, won't you?" "O Miss Prue! must I? You know I never liked those bees, and now" "Yes, I understand all that, still I want you to go. I have reasons.
But Auntie Jinit Johnstone, who lived on the next farm, and knew the minute family history of everyone in the county of Simcoe, had informed the last quilting-bee that a certain Coulson and no distant relative of the young schoolmaster either had kept a tavern in the early days down by the lake shore. Miss Gordon had made no remark. She never took part in gossip.
"The big noise in my day is when Henry comes home at six. That was all right and natural, I suppose, in those times when a quilting-bee was a wild afternoon's work, and teaching school was the most advanced job a woman could hold down." Emma was gazing fascinated at the girl's sparkling face. Her own eyes were very bright, and her lips were parted.
One Saturday in November there was a quilting-bee and a corn-shucking at farmer Trabue's. Early in the afternoon the matrons and maids of Cane Ridge each with thimble, needles and scissors in a long reticule dangling from her waist congregated in Mrs. Trabue's big upper room, where the quilt, already "swung," was awaiting them.
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