THE CORN LADY 



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go to school. She is only twelve years old. 

 When she was working on 

 her buttonholes, she came to 

 me and said: 



"Mother told me once 

 that grandmother could 

 make buttonholes so well 

 that you couldn't tell the 

 right side from the wrong 

 side. I am trying to learn 

 to make them as well as she 



Bless her heart, I am sure 

 if her mother knew what 

 good buttonholes her 

 daughter did make, she 

 would be glad. I noticed, 

 too, that her dresses which 

 had been pinned up with 

 buttons off, and her hair 

 that was not always combed 

 well, became far neater; and the work at 

 home, which she had always seemed to 

 dread, began to be less of a burden. 



The girl who had the best loaf of bread 

 is the youngest in a family of eleven girls. 

 They are all grown up and out of school 



CHAMPION 

 BREAD MAKER 



