Now Nora, how shall we do ?--You try one and I'll try one; that will be best; and then we can see.

I want them to look very pretty, you know; and they are to be filled with strawberries to send home to the children; if we make them very nice they will go on the table, I think, and help dress it up." For a time there was comparative silence, while the little hands turned and twisted the mosses and bits of larch and cedar and hemlock in and out of the openings of the baskets.

It was not found easy at first to produce a good effect; hands were unused to the work; and Nora declared after half an hour she believed the baskets would look best plain, just as they were.

But Daisy would not give up.

She grew very warm indeed with the excitement of her efforts, but she worked on.