John


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"His serious little face puckered into an an anxious frown" (See page 4)[Frontispiece]
"Every one was making patchwork"[6]
"'Dear as it is to me, it is not so dear as the keeping of my word'"[11]
"The familiar squares of faded patchwork met his eye"[19]
"Each boy longed to own it"[30]
"Hoeing away in his garden"[38]
"'I stopped and read it through twice'"[44]
"'And that kid just started off on foot'"[52]