"
"And here are all the doings." Patience came to investigate the
further contents of the express package. "Films and those funny little
pans for developing in, and all."
Inside the camera was a message to the effect that Mr. Shaw hoped his
niece would be pleased with his present and that it would add to the
summer's pleasures,
"He's getting real uncley, isn't he?" Patience observed. Then she
caught sight of the samples Pauline had let fall. "Oh, how pretty!
Are they for dresses for us?"
"They'd make pretty scant ones, I'd say," Pauline, answered.
"Silly!" Patience spread the bright scraps out on her blue checked
gingham apron. "I just bet you've been choosing! Why didn't you call
me?"
"To help us choose?" Pauline asked, with a laugh.
But at the present moment, her small sister was quite impervious to
sarcasm. "I think I'll have this," she pointed to a white ground,
closely sprinkled with vivid green dots.
"Carrots and greens!" Pauline declared, glancing at her sister's red
curls. "You'd look like an animated boiled dinner! If you please, who
said anything about your choosing?"
"You look ever so nice in all white, Patty," Hilary said hastily.
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