She had written it that afternoon with carmine ink, on the nicest of tinted paper.

Dotty received it very humbly, and laid it away in the rosewood box with her precious things.
* * * * * PRUDY'S LECTURE.
"We must keep good company, Dotty, or not any at all.

This is a fact.
"Even an apple is known by the company it keeps.

Grandpa Parlin says if you put apples in a potato bin, they won't taste like apples--they'll taste like potatoes.
"Sometimes I think, Dotty, you'd be as good and nice as a summer-sweeting, if you wouldn't play with naughty children, like Lina Rosenberg; but if you do, you'll be like a potato, as true as you live.
"Finis.".