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Rh complained Delia, "and now Rebecca has taken hers home to show her mother."

"It was kind of a gold net bag with a chain," said Mrs. Perkins, "and there was five ten-dollar gold pieces in it. Herbert Dunn's was put in a fine leather wallet."

"How long is Rebecca goin' to stay at the farm?" asked Delia.

"Till they get over Hannah's bein' married, and get the house to runnin' without her," answered Mrs. Perkins. "It seems as if Hannah might 'a' waited a little longer. Aurelia was set against her goin' away while Rebecca was at school, but she 's obstinate as a mule, Hannah is, and she just took her own way in spite of her mother. She 's been doin' her sewin' for a year; the awfullest coarse cotton cloth she had, but she 's nearly blinded herself with fine stitchin' and rufflin' and tuckin'. Did you hear about the quilt she made? It 's white, and has a big bunch o' grapes in the centre, quilted by a thimble top. Then there 's a row of circle-borderin' round the grapes, and she done them the size of a spool. The next border was done with a sherry glass, and the last with a port glass, an' all outside o' that was solid stitchin' done in straight rows; she 's goin' to exhibit it at the county fair."

"She 'd better 'a' been takin' in sewin' and earnin' money, 'stead o' blindin' her eyes on such foolishness as quilted counterpanes," said Mrs. Cobb.