I have Aunt Izzy's recipe, which is a very good one; and if we all take hold, it won't be such an immense piece of work.

Debby has quantities of raisins stoned already.

She has been doing them in the evenings a few at a time for the last month.

Mrs.Ashe knows a factory where you can get the little white boxes for ten dollars a thousand, and I have commissioned her to send for five hundred." "Five hundred! What an immense quantity!" "Yes; but there are all the Hillsover girls to be remembered, and all our kith and kin, and everybody at the wedding will want one.

I don't think it will be too many.