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with worsted. This is only an experiment, 
and, if we like the design, we may make 
some other, perhaps more elaborate, for 
the other rooms." 
By this time Jessie had the little leaf 
stitched all round, and Mrs. Carpenter 
finished it. It was quite a pretty and odd 
device. 
"Now, Jessie, here is a piece of plush, 
it is just the right size for a rug to put in 
front of the sofa, if we have one, or per- 
haps beside the bed; it is just twice as 
long as it is. wide, and I think we will 
leave it as it is, and you can stitch it 
around as you did the other; and when 
that is finished, we will lay the carpet and 
rugs away until we are as far advanced 
with the other rooms as we are with this 
one, and probably by that time Fred and 
Ellwood will have the furniture ready to 
upholster." "Yes, mamma, I think that 
will be the best plan." 
Mrs. Carpenter and Jessie were hard at 
work, when Ellwood came running in at 
half past nine to tell his mamma and 
Jessie that they were going to work a 
little later than usual, because Fred was 
anxious to finish one of the little cornices 
that night, so he could bring it in to show 
Jessie. Jessie was now getting sleep3^ 
but insisted upon staying up until Fred 
came in. He soon made his appearance 
with his papa, and under his arm the 
cornice. 
" What do you think of it, Jessie ? " said 
Fred. "Think of it? why, I think it is 
just lovely! " answered Jessie, looking at 
it with delight, "don't you, Mamma?" 
Mrs. Carpenter thought it was very nice, 
of course. 
"I fear you will make our boy vain, you 
praise him so much," said the father of 
this little flock, as Fred and Jessie were 
preparing t.o bring their evening's work 
to an end by putting their things away. 
"Oh! no," said Fred, laughing, "little 
things like that don't affect me in 
the least;" but, nevertheless, Fred was 
pleased and proud of his work. 
Jessie wanted to make the cari^et for the 
parlor the next time her mamma and she 
sat down to sew for dolly's house, and Mrs. 
Carpenter consented. They had had a 
good many talks about furnishing this im- 
portant room, and had decided to furnish it 
in blue, because, as Jessie said, "it would 
be so becoming to dolly's pinky com- 
plexion and golden hair." This carpet 
was to be made of canvas, the same as is 
ordinarily used for woolwork, perhaps a 
little coarser. Mrs. Carpenter had the 
canvas in the house, and cut it out, so that 
Jessie could begin to work it. 
"The parlor floor measures 18x14 
inches, doesn't it Jessie?" said Mrs. 
Carpenter, "so I have cut it one inch 
longer each way, and now you can hem it 
around the edges to prevent it from ravel- 
ing." 
As dollj^'s parlor was not to be used 
by any but herself, they selected the 
pretty shade of ciel-blue for the ground of 
the carx)et, and the pattern was to be 
worked in some contrasting color. 
The carpet was now commenced, and 
Jessie w^orked very dilligently at it in her 
leisure time. Mrs. Carpenter traced a 
little vine of moss rosebuds and leaves 
near the edge of the canvas, for a border, 
and they decided not to have anything in 
the centre, as the room was so small. Mrs. 
Carpenter w^orked the buds for Jessie with 
pale-shades of pink worsted, and Jessie 
did the leaves with drab, and then filled 
them in with blue. 
Some time elapsed before Jessie com- 
menced her carpet, but, being fond of , 
work of that kind, it did not take her long 
to do it, considering that she went to 
school, and had some lessons to learn 
when she came home in the afternoon. 
The carpet was finished, how^ever, and 
Jessie thinks there is nothing like it in I 
this or any other country. 
The boys having completed the house, 
and being anxious to make something for 
their mother, of whom they were very 
fond, decided to ask her if they could not 
make her something now ; so the follow- 
ing morning, at breakfast table, they 
asked her if there was not something she 
wanted they could make for her. 
"Well, children," said Mrs. Carpenter, 
" I would like either a nice toilet stand 
for Fred's room, or a small umbrella 
stand for the hall leading from the side I 
entrance of the house, if you think you 
