The Brownie Scouts in the Cherry Festival

The Brownie Scouts in the Cherry Festival
by Mildred A. Wirt
Illustrated
CUPPLES AND LEON COMPANY Publishers New York
Copyright, 1950, by CUPPLES AND LEON COMPANY
All Rights Reserved
THE BROWNIE SCOUTS IN THE CHERRY FESTIVAL
Printed in the United States of America
STITCH-stitch-stitch.
Six needles nibbled at the gay scraps of cotton cloth. Six pairs of scissors went snip, snip, snip as the Brownie Scouts worked at their sewing in the Williams’ living room.
The girls were making a crazy quilt. Dark-eyed Veve McGuire, who hated to sew, declared that the task was as silly as the quilt’s name.
“Oh, bother!” she exclaimed as her thread tangled into an ugly knot. “Why not pitch this old thing and think of an easier way to earn money?”