. The pot of gold, and other stories . side of the fireplace, with theirknitting work, in Julias home. They were nice oldladies, and Julia loved them dearly, but they lost theirspectacles all the time, and were always dropping theirballs of yarn, and it did make a deal of work forone boy to do. He could have hunted up spectaclesfor one Grandmother, but when it came to four, andone was always losing hers while he was findinganothers, and one ball of yarn would drop and rolloff, while he was picking up another — well, it wasreally bewildering at times. Then he had to hold theskeins of yarn for t
. The pot of gold, and other stories . side of the fireplace, with theirknitting work, in Julias home. They were nice oldladies, and Julia loved them dearly, but they lost theirspectacles all the time, and were always dropping theirballs of yarn, and it did make a deal of work forone boy to do. He could have hunted up spectaclesfor one Grandmother, but when it came to four, andone was always losing hers while he was findinganothers, and one ball of yarn would drop and rolloff, while he was picking up another — well, it wasreally bewildering at times. Then he had to hold theskeins of yarn for them to wind, and his arms used toache, and he could hear the boys shouting at a gameof ball outdoors, maybe. But he never refused to doanything his Grandmothers asked him to, and did itpleasantly, too ; and it was not on that account he gotinto the Patchwork School. It was on Christmas day that Julia was arrested andled away to the Patchwork School. It happened inthis way : As I said before, Julias parents were poor, p$> MBUm t*. JULIA WAS ARRESTED UN CHRISTMAS DAY. THE PATCHWORK SCHOOL. 207 and it was all the)r could do to procure the bare coin-forts of life for their family ; there was very little tospend for knickknacks. But I dont think Julia wouldhave complained at that; he would have liked usefularticles just as well for Christmas presents, and wouldnot have been unhappy because he did not find someuseless toy in his stocking, instead of some articleof clothing, which he needed to make him he had had the same things over and over, overand over, Christmas after Christmas. Every yeareach of his Grandmothers knit him two pairs of bluewoollen yarn stockings, and hung them for him onChristinas Eve, for a Christmas present. There theywould hang — eight pairs of stockings with nothing inthem, in a row on the mantel shelf, every Christmasmorning. Every year Julia thought about it for weeks beforeChristmas, and hoped and hoped he would have some-thing differ
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