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NEEDLES AND TONGUES.
DEAR POLLY, The Sewing Circle meets at our house this P.M.This is in your line, so do come and help me through.

I shall depend on you.
Yours ever, FAN.
"Bad news, my dear ?" asked Miss Mills, who had just handed the note to Polly as she came in one noon, a few weeks after Jenny's arrival.
Polly told her what it was, adding, "I suppose I ought to go and help Fanny, but I can't say I want to.

The girls talk about things I have nothing to do with, and I don't find their gossip very amusing.

I 'm an outsider, and they only accept me on Fan's account; so I sit in a corner and sew, while they chatter and laugh." "Would n't it be a good chance to say a word for Jenny?
She wants work, and these young ladies probably have quantities done somewhere.