"Yes, ma'am," said Ann Lizy.
They walked a little farther. The golden-rod and the asters were in
blossom now, and the road was bordered with waving fringes of blue and
gold. They came in sight of Jane Baxter's house.
"You may stop in Jane Baxter's, if you want to," said old Mrs. Jennings,
"and ask her mother if she can come over and spend the day with you
to-morrow. And tell her I say she'd better not bring her sewing, and
she'd better not wear her best dress, for you and she ain't goin' to sew
any, and mebbe you'll like to go berryin', and play out-doors."
THE LITTLE PERSIAN PRINCESS
"And you must spin faster, Dorothy, or you'll go to bed without your
supper," said Dame Betsy.
"Yes, ma'am," replied Dorothy. Then she twirled the wheel so fast that
the spokes were a blur.
Dorothy was a pretty little girl. She had a small pink-and-white face;
her hair was closely cropped and looked like a little golden cap, and
her eyes were as blue as had been the flowers of the flax which she was
spinning. She wore an indigo-blue frock, and she looked very short and
slight beside the wheel.
Dorothy spun, Dame Betsy tended a stew-kettle that was hanging from the
crane in the fire-place, and the eldest of Dame Betsy's six daughters
sat on the bench beside the cottage door and ate honey-cakes. The other
daughters had arrayed themselves in their best tuckers and plumed hats
and farthingales, spread their ruffled parasols, and gone to walk.
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