Sowing and Sewing : A Sexagesima Story

FOUR girls were together in a pleasant cottage room with a large window, over whichfluttered some dry sticks, which would in due time bear clematis and Virginia creeperleaves.Three of them were Miss Lee's apprentices, and this room had been built out at the backof the baker's shop for them.

The place was the property of the Lee family themselves, andnobody in Langley was more respected than they were.

Ambrose Lee, whose name wasover the baker's shop, and who kept a horse and cart, was always called Mr. Lee.He had married a pretty, delicate young girl, who had soon fallen into such hopeless illhealth, that his sister Charlotte was obliged to live at home to attend to her and to the shop.And when young Mrs. Lee died, leaving three small children, another sister, Rose, gave upher place to help in the care of her old father and the little ones.