Then mother boiled them in copperas water, and aniline, and all the dyes she had, and the boys polished them, and they stood in shining black, red, blue and yellow heaps.

The onion ones would be done in the morning.

Leon had a goose egg and mother let him keep it, so he wrote and wrote on it, until Laddie said it would be all writing, and no colour, and he boiled it in red, after mother finished, and polished it himself.

It came out real pretty with roses on it and lots of words he wouldn't let any of us read; but of course it was for Susie Fall.
Next morning he slipped it to her at church.

When we got home, all of us were there except Shelley, and we had a big dinner and a fine time and Laddie stayed until after supper, before he went to Pryors'.
"How is he making it ?" asked Sally.
"You could see she was making it all right; she never looked lovelier, and mother said Peter was letting her spend away too much money on her clothes.