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members of the Kind Hearts’ Club will please thread 
needles and begin. If any one of you has sticky fingers, 
Ann will show you where to wash them, because the very 
beginning of good sewing lies in clean hands, for they mean 
nice white thread and bright, shining needles.” 
When the cover was lifted from the table, and the girls 
saw the dolls, and the little stack of clothes, they ex- 
claimed in delight, — even those like Katie Lee, who really 
did not belong at school, for she had stopped playing 
with dolls and was ready for the eighth grade. Only, 
unfortunately, there was no eighth-grade class at Foxes 
Corners, and as it was too far for them to walk to the Centre 
every day, they stayed on at school, and Miss Wilde 
helped them as far as her time allowed so that they might 
make up the required lessons at home. 
ENGLISH STARLING 
Here’s to the stranger, so lately a ranger, 
Who came from far over seas ; — 
Whatever the weather, still in high feather, 
At top of the windy trees! 
Here’s to the darling, — brave English Starling, 
Stays the long winter through; 
He would not leave us, would not bereave us, — 
Not he, though our own birds do! 
Cold weather pinches — flown are the finches, 
Thrushes and warblers too! 
Here’s to the darling, here’s to the Starling, — 
English Starling true! 
— Epitu M. Tuomas, in Bird-Lore. 
