"
"What work have you on hand?" Miss Ruth inquired.
"We have just made a beginning," Mrs. Elliot answered with a sigh.
"There's half a dozen fine shirts to make, and a pile of sheets and
pillowcases, dresses and aprons for four little girls, table-cloths and
towels to hem, and I know not what else. We always have sent a
bed-quilt, but this barrel must go without it. It's a pity, too, for
they need bedding."
"Why, so it is," said Miss Ruth. "Susie,"--to a little girl sitting
close beside her,--"why can't some of you girls get together one
afternoon in the week and make a patchwork quilt to send in the barrel?"
Susie put her head on one side and considered.
"Where could we meet, Aunt Ruth?"
"Here in my room, Susie, if mamma has no objection."
"Certainly not," Mrs. Elliot said; "but are you well enough to undertake
it, Ruth?"
"Yes, indeed, Mary; I shall really enjoy it."
"And would you cut out the blocks for us, and show us how to keep them
from getting all _skewonical_, like the cradle-quilt I made for Amelia
Adeline?"
Amelia Adeline was Susie's doll.
"Yes; and I could tell you stories while you were working. How would
that do?"
"Why, it would be splendid!" said the little girl.
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