"O Lu, tell me all about it!" exclaimed Grace when Lulu came home the next day, from her visit to Eliza.

"Are they very, very poor and needy ?" "'Liza and her children?
Well, not so very; because papa has been seeing to them for quite a while.

They had a good fire ('Liza was ironing for somebody) and pretty good clothes; but the children are growing too big for some of their things and have torn or worn holes in others.

So papa says he thinks we should make them some new ones.

I'm going to ask Grandma Elsie to buy some flannel with some of my money, and let me make a skirt for the baby." "I'd like to make an apron for one of the little girls," said Grace.
"Well I suppose you can.