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Sowing Seeds in Danny by Nellie L. McClung
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from the oven, she laughed softly to herself.

"This is going to be a good time for some further
suggestions. Pearl must go with Danny. What a treat it
will be for poor little Pearl! Then we must have a new
suit for Danny, new dress for Pearl, new cap for D., new
hat for P., all suggested by C. There are a few suggestions
which C. will certainly make."

On the evening of the professor's recital there were no
two happier people in the audience than Pearlie Watson
and her brother Daniel Mulcahey Watson; not because the
great professor was about to interpret for them the music
of the masters--that was not the cause of their
happiness--but because of the good supper they had had
and the good clothes they wore, their hearts were glad.
They had spent the afternoon at Mrs. Francis's (suggested
by C.). Danny's new coat had a velvet collar lovely to
feel (suggested by C.). Pearl had a wonderful new dress--the
kind she had often dreamed of--made out of one of Mrs.
Francis's tea gowns. (Not only suggested but made by C.).
It had real buttons on it, and there was not one pin
needed. Pearl felt she was just as well dressed as the
little girl on the starch box. Her only grief was that
when she had on her coat--which was also new, and
represented one-half month of Camilla's wages--the velvet
on her dress did not show. But Camilla, anticipating this
difficulty, laid back the fronts in stunning lapels, and
to complete the arrangement, put one of her own lace
collars around the neck of the coat, the ends coming down
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