Pond
will like him and adopt him?"
Cousin Ann listened attentively and nodded her head. "Yes, I think that
would be a good idea," she said. "We were thinking last night we ought
to do something for him. If you'll make the clothes, Mother'll knit him
some stockings and Father will get him some shoes. Mr. Pond never makes
his spring trip till late May, so we'll have plenty of time."
Betsy was full of importance that day at school and at recess time got
the girls together on the rocks and told them all about the plan.
"Cousin Ann says she'll help us, and we can meet at our house every
Saturday afternoon till we get them done. It'll be fun! Aunt Abigail
telephoned down to the store right away, and Mr. Wilkins says he'll give
the cloth if we'll make it up."
Betsy spoke very grandly of "making it up," although she had hardly held
a needle in her life, and when the Saturday afternoon meetings began she
was ashamed to see how much better Ellen and even Eliza could sew than
she. To keep her end up, she was driven to practising her stitches
around the lamp in the evenings, with Aunt Abigail keeping an eye on
her.
Cousin Ann supervised the sewing on Saturday afternoons and taught those
of the little girls whose legs were long enough how to use the sewing
machine. First they made a little pair of trousers out of an old gray
woolen skirt of Aunt Abigail's.
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