We will take them out, and you shall try again." "I can't do it right! I'll never succeed, if I try ever so hard!" muttered Lulu, impatiently.
"Oh, yes, you will," returned Violet with an encouraging smile.

"Keep trying, and you will be surprised to find how easy it will grow." The second attempt was quite an improvement upon the first, and under Violet's pleased look and warm praise Lulu's ruffled temper smoothed down, and the ugly frown left her face.
In the mean while Gracie was handling her needle with the quiet ease of one accustomed to its use, making tiny even stitches that quite surprised her new mamma.
With all her faults Lulu was incapable of envy or jealousy, especially toward her dearly loved brother and sister, and when at the close of the sewing hour Gracie's work was handed about from one to another, receiving hearty commendation, no one was better pleased than Lulu.
"Isn't it nice, Grandma Elsie ?" she said, glancing at her little sister with a flush of pride in her skill, "a great deal better than I can do, though she's two years younger." "It's only because I couldn't run about and play like Lulu, and so I just sat beside Aunt Beulah and learned to hem and back-stitch and run and overseam," said Gracie.

"But Lulu can do everything else better than I can." "And she will soon equal you in that, I trust," said Violet, with an affectionate glance from one to the other; "I am quite sure she will if she continues to try as she has done to-day.

And it makes my heart rejoice to see how you love one another, dear children." "I think everybody loves Gracie, because she's hardly ever naughty," said Lulu; "I wish I'd been made so.".