"
"Why, that's just what Florence Austin was saying this afternoon," said
Mollie. "She said she wished all those stories could be printed in a
book."
"You hear the suggestion, Ruth," Mrs. Elliot said.
But Ruth smiled and shook her head,
"They are such simple little stories," said she.
"For simple little people to read--'for of such is the kingdom of
heaven.' Think, Ruth, if, instead of one Eliza Jones 'making butterflies
out of fennel-worms' next summer, and in that way getting at some
wonderful facts far more effectively than any book could teach her,
there should be a dozen, aria perhaps as many boys resolving, like Roy,
to use kindness and patience instead of cruelty and force in their
dealings with a dumb beast. But you know all this without my preaching.
Ten times one make ten, little sister."
"If I thought my stones would do good," she said.
"Come, I have a proposition to make," said the minister's wife. "You
shall write out the stories--you already have some of them in
manuscript--and I will fill in with the doings of the Patchwork Quilt
Society. Do you agree?"
And that is how this book was written.
THE END
The Girl Chum's Series
ALL AMERICAN AUTHORS.
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