“Why, that’s just what Florence Austin was saying this afternoon,” said Mollie.  “She said she wished all those stories could be printed in a book.”

“You hear the suggestion, Ruth,” Mrs. Elliot said.

But Ruth smiled and shook her head,

“They are such simple little stories,” said she.

“For simple little people to read—­’for of such is the kingdom of heaven.’  Think, Ruth, if, instead of one Eliza Jones ’making butterflies out of fennel-worms’ next summer, and in that way getting at some wonderful facts far more effectively than any book could teach her, there should be a dozen, aria perhaps as many boys resolving, like Roy, to use kindness and patience instead of cruelty and force in their dealings with a dumb beast.  But you know all this without my preaching.  Ten times one make ten, little sister.”

“If I thought my stones would do good,” she said.

“Come, I have a proposition to make,” said the minister’s wife.  “You shall write out the stories—­you already have some of them in manuscript—­and I will fill in with the doings of the Patchwork Quilt Society.  Do you agree?”

And that is how this book was written.

THE END

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