Would you like it ?" "Would I?
Indeed I would! But you ought to keep that, Azalea.

My, what a generous girl you are! You'd give away your head, if it weren't fastened on! No, dear child, keep your grandmother's sampler yourself.

Is it a good one ?" "I don't know what a 'good' one is.

It has flowers on it, and little people,--queer ones,--and a long verse of poetry and an alphabet of letters." "And the date ?" "Yes; 1836, I think it is." "That's fairly old.

Not a collection piece,--but a good date.