The Crown of Success

at quantity of paper I shall have to buy from Mr. Reading. Shall I

dear Dick,"

like him would not move a finger if he could help it; I would not gi

umbled Lubin, not much ple

are best when put in at the beginning of spring-had we not better set off at once and buy what Mr. Learning recommended? Mrs. Sewing d

ys in a hurry

kly; "as I can never go fast, I am obliged t

t's rare fun to have a run down hill!" c

r, took to chasing a bright butterfly, which led her quite out of her way, Nelly was the first to reach the brook which flowed at the bottom of the hill. To her great comfort she found that there wer

er door, occupied in training a larg

had slowly picked her way over t

rushed on, out of breath with her haste,

small round pin-cushions hanging almost as low as her waist. Instead of her own hair she wore a

ow formal courtesy, and said with a smile

wise, and wort

spring-time co

e come to buy plants of needlework from you to train up our garden walls. We've plenty of money to buy them with,"-he

urtesy Mrs. Sew

ng-up and F

g for a la

-hole, and

ng, finest

that will ca

never sourc

n-work, there

orth a woma

are so big, and the stems are all set with thorns, just as sharp as needles. You have something yonder a thousand times prettier, with flowers

ing courtesied

, Netting, Cro

, German-work,

, Cross-stitch,

patterns m

-work each

taste and ply

"was ever anything so pretty as this! Every blossom like bunches of beads that glitter so bri

or what was pretty and pleasant. But a thought crossed the lame child's mind, and laying her hand on Matty's arm, she whispered in her sister's ear: "Don't you remember, dear, how fond mother is of the fruits of Plain-work; we've heard her s

tty, shrugging her shoulders; "but it may do for you!" She said this i

Plain-work best; she values things that are useful rather than those that a

clusters of bright-coloured beads, and Nelly took a fine

ho, smiling and courtesying to the gir

d profit bot

r shall be

er, who could hardly see the stepping-stones through the thick leaves of the plant which she bore. Nelly's pot was also very

d the wetting were anything but agreeable. It was very unkind in Matty to stand, as she did, laughing a

horn-needles are pricking

he stupid Plain-work

by a trifle. I wish that some of my little readers who sit pouting and fretting over a seam, crying over a broken needle, or a prick o

reatly outstripped her sister, as she had done when they at first had set out. But with patient, uncomplaining labour, Nelly Desley plodded

ing-stones through the thick lea

ge