[The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor by Annie Fellows Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookThe Little Colonel: Maid of Honor CHAPTER XIV 6/21
Just the casing, you know.
Maybe it's a doah of mawning-glories they're going to pass through.
I recognize those flowahs twined all around it.
We made them a long time ago for the lamp-shades when the King's Daughtahs had an oystah suppah at the manse. I made all those purple mawning-glories and Betty made the yellow ones." Glancing over his shoulder, he happened to spy a familiar face behind him, the kindly old black face of his uncle's cook. "Howdy, Aunt Jane!" he exclaimed, with a friendly smile.
Then, in a stage whisper, he asked, "Aunt Jane, can you tell me? Are those morning-glories artificial ?" The old woman wrinkled her face into a knot as she peered in the direction of the pulpit, toward which he nodded.
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