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The interest lies, first, in the united effort to fill the barrel, and second, in the rivalry among the fishermen as to which of them shall take in the largest cod or the greatest number of haddock, these being regarded as prize packages. The sculpin and the sea vegetables may be compared to comic valentines, which expose the recipient to ridicule.
To write verses for May-day seems to have been as much a matter of course as to ride out with the cavalcade that went to gather hawthorn. The choice of Valentines was a standing challenge, and the courtiers pelted each other with humorous and sentimental verses as in a literary carnival.
"I'm sure I don't know," came helplessly from Nan. "You can't prove that Danny did it, can you?" "No." "It's too bad. I wish the window hadn't been broken." "So do I," said Bert; and there the talk came to an end, for there seemed nothing more to say. St. Valentine's Day was now close at hand, and all of the children of the neighborhood were saving their money with which to buy valentines.
It meant quite as much to her as did the reading in that Primer: Cat, a cat, the cat. The bat, the mat, a rat. It was the jingle to both that appealed to Emmy Lou. About this time rumors began to reach Emmy Lou. She heard that it was February, and that wonderful things were peculiar to the Fourteenth. At recess the little girls locked arms and talked Valentines. The echoes reached Emmy Lou.
Let rumor make the rounds that he purposed stuffing the box, and others would play at the same game. Witness a girl in an early grade, the homeliest of the room, who begged a dollar from her father and filled the box to overflowing with a hundred penny valentines addressed to herself.
A stealthy step, a skilful use of the lariat, and Barney was bound and gagged, that he might give no alarm; and all this with such quiet Indian alertness that a ranchman farther down the corral heard nothing. So harmlessly ended this raid, that might have been a bloody battle but for Major Molly's Christmas promise! Polly was seven years old before she knew anything about valentines.
She did not expect there would be any further greetings, and did this rather to amuse Alma, who sat examining her three valentines with a tearful little smile; but it was a very short time before another knock sounded on the usually neglected door, and quick as a wink it opened and Mrs. Driscoll's hand flying out caught another hand.
Would anybody have beleived it? To pick a name out of the air, so to speak, and off a malted milk tablet, and then to find that it actualy belonged to some one was sickning. "It may not be the one you know" I said desperately. "It it's a common name. There must be plenty of Valentines." "Sure there are, lace paper and Cupids lots of that sort.
"No, never." "Those girls 'cross the street had 'em, and Martha had one. Why don't you and I have 'em, Jane?" "You 'n' I? Those girls across the street know girls and boys who have fathers and mothers to give them money to buy valentines with." "Why don't we know such girls and boys?" "'Cause we don't. We're poor, and live in an Orphans' Home.
The big heart that had held the valentines was not at all marred, but rather improved by their removal, and, the girls admired it more than ever. "But we haven't taken the last ones yet," said Delight, looking at the two envelopes in the bills of the doves. They took them at the same time, and opened them simultaneously. Each contained a valentine and a tiny parcel.
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