But that's a good sampler, as it stands,--I mean as a specimen of 1836 work." "Yes, I know it is.

And yet, oughtn't the stitches to be put back ?" "Probably not,--for they could not be matched exactly--" "But if it remains like this, everybody will think it two hundred years older than it really is." Mr.Greatorex smiled.

"Scarcely," he said.

"You see, my dear, the earliest known dated sampler is one of 1643 which is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, in England.

There are but six or seven known in that century at all.