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"Why don't you wish your tongue was one, Hat, then you wouldn't have to sharpen it," suggested Connie. "I bet Miss Lady had my pencil," went on Hattie, ignoring Connie's comment. "She's never owned a pair of scissors, or a pencil, or a shoe-buttoner since she's been here. And look at those letters on the mantel! She'll never think about mailing them." "What are they doing with black borders?"
And King was rejoicing over a fountain pen, a pocket-knife, a silk muffler, a rubber-stamp outfit, and some new gloves. Kitty had a little pocket-book, a silver shoe-buttoner, a blank-book, a pretty silk pincushion, and a bangle like Marjorie's. Baby Rosy had dolls and toys, and what with the candies and other goodies, there was a distracting array of Christmas all about.
"Pansy," she called, as she heard the girl in the dining-room, "do, for mercy's sake, come up and help me. I can't find my shoe-buttoner, and I can't button the yoke of this crazy dress without it."
"Hand me the shoe-buttoner, Phonzie. The doctor says stooping is bad for my hair-pins." Their laughter, light as foam, met and mingled. "Oh, you nervy Gertie!" "What's your hurry, Phonzie dearie?" "I don't see you stopping me." "Fine chance, with her crouching over there, ready to spring." "Hang around, sweetness.
Gracie she was a little thing then, and, bein' the youngest, a little sassy and sp'iled, mebbe had been on a trip to the city, and she'd brought her ma a present of a shoe-buttoner with a handle a full foot long. "'There, ma, she says, laughin' up in her mother's face; 'you was complainin' about the distance it seemed to be to your feet: here's a kind of a telegraft-pole to shorten it a little.
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