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Updated: June 11, 2025
It was from her father, and as Mr. Spencer didn't have the knack of rhyming as well as Mr. Maynard, he had written on the back: "Dear Delight, I can't write, But I send you Affection true, Yankee Doodle Doo!" "I think that's funny!" cried Marjorie. "I love funny valentines." "So do I," agreed Delight; "and I didn't know father could make rhymes as well as that.
The Boy, as he has put on record elsewhere, never really, in his inmost heart, thought that comic valentines were so very comic, because those that came to him usually reflected upon his nose, or were illuminated with portraits of gentlemen of all ages adorned with supernaturally red hair.
"I'm so glad to see you!" said Delight, as Marjorie came dancing into her room. "Everything's all ready. You sit over there." So Midget sat down opposite her friend at a long, low table, on which were all the valentine materials laid out in readiness. "What beautiful things," cried Midget; "but I don't know how to make valentines." "I'll show you. It's awfully easy, and lots of fun."
Banish the newspaper out of your houses, and shut your eyes to the truth, the awful truth, of life and sin. Is the world made of Jennies and Jessamies; and passion the play of schoolboys and schoolgirls, scribbling valentines and interchanging lollipops?
Thank you," said Frank, but as he joined the boys on the playground he felt still more uncomfortable. Lucy Berry, as soon as the recess bell had sounded, had gone straight to Alma. Her cheeks were very red, and the brown eyes were full of kindness. Alma looked up in shy pleasure at her, a little embarrassed because she didn't know whether to thank Lucy for the valentines or not.
Some remembrance of old Valentines, wherein a cherub, less appropriately attired for a proverbially uncertain climate, had been seen conducting lovers to the altar, might have been fancied to inflame the ardour of his timber toes. Be it as it might, he gave his moorings the slip, and followed in chase.
The valentines were exactly alike, and their verses read the same: "This is a Ring Dove, fair and white That brings this gift to you to-night. But why a Ring Dove, you may ask; The answer is an easy task. Look in this tiny box and see What has the Ring Dove brought to thee!" Eagerly the girls opened the boxes, and inside, on a bit of cotton wool, lay two lovely rings exactly alike.
Oh, Miss Hart, do look at our rings and valentines!" Miss Hart came in, smiling, and proved an interested audience of one, as she examined all the pretty trifles. "And now," said Miss Hart, at last, "there's more to your valentine party. Will you come out to the dining-room and see it?"
And didn't every one know that she was visiting her sister in El Monte? All the storms of the Winter were as a summer calm besides the gale the valentines raised. Nobody talked about anything else.
And take it from me, girls, these dimple-kneed chickens are vamping the older boys." "They're all stuck on Bessy," said Helen. Margaret squealed in delight. "Girls, look here. Valentines! Did you ever?... Look at them.... And what's this?... 'Wonders of Nature composition by Margaret Maynard. Heavens! Did I write that? And what's this sear and yellow document?"
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