"And wear one of
them blue-ribbon affairs?"
"Yes, indeed," Shirley laughed. "See, here it is," and she pointed to
the one in Pauline's hand.
Sextoness Jane came down the steps. "Me, I ain't never wore a badge!
Not once in all my life! Oncet, when I was a little youngster, 'most
like Patience, teacher, she got up some sort of May doings. We was all
to wear white dresses and red, white and blue ribbons--very night
before, I come down with the mumps. Looks like I always come down when
I ought to've stayed up!"
"But you won't come down with anything this time," Pauline pinned the
blue badge on the waist of Jane's black and white calico. "Now you're
an honorary member of 'The S. W. F. Club.'"
Jane passed a hand over it softly. "My Land!" was all she could say.
She was still stroking it softly as she walked slowly away towards
home. My, wouldn't Tobias be interested!
CHAPTER IX
AT THE MANOR
"'All the names I know from nurse:
Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,
Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,
And the Lady Hollyhock,'"
Patience chanted, moving slowly about the parsonage garden, hands full
of flowers, and the big basket, lying on the grass beyond, almost full.
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