The blue socks

"OH, mother! Will you please give me some money, this minute? I want to go right down and get some yarn, so that I can begin to-night. And, mother, will you show me how to set i...

ELSIE walked home from school in a very uncomfortable frame of mind. Her refusal to pledge herself to knit for the soldiers had arisen from no lukewarmness to the cause, nor did...

HETTY'S knitting went on most prosperously for two or three days. Like most girls, she was fond of novelty, and any new piece of work was apt to engage all her attention,—while...

HENRIETTA walked home from school in any thing but a good humour. She could not flatter herself that her work would make any great figure, even with all she might be able to do...

ELSIE entered the house, and went at once to her own room, feeling more angry that she had ever done before in her life. She was not easily disturbed, and her mother often thoug...

HENRIETTA had fully determined to employ every spare moment during the week upon her knitting. She flattered herself that, by so doing, she would be able to finish the socks upo...

Such was Minny's salutation to her friend as they met on Monday morning at the schoolhouse door; and it was spoken in a tone of reproach which grated uncomfortably upon Henriett...

FIVE o'clock found the whole party of school-girls assembled in Madam Wentworth spacious, old-fashioned drawing-rooms. From the oldest to the youngest, not one was absent. Most...

ENTERING upon her resolution fortified by Elsie's advice, Henrietta confessed every thing to her mother before she slept. She concealed nothing that she could remember, from her...

AT the end of the week the stockings were all collected; and a goodly show they made. True, some of them were not exactly models in shape, and a good many seemed to have been kn...