CHAPTER VI
FLIERS
Laura and Elliott were in the summer kitchen, filling glass jars with raspberries. As they finished filling each jar, they capped it and lowered it into a wash-boiler of hot water on the stove.
“It seems odd,” remarked Laura, “to put up berries without sugar.”
“Isn’t it horrid,” said Elliott, who had never put up berries at all, but who was longing for candy and hadn’t had courage to suggest buying any. “I hope the Allies are going to appreciate all we are doing for them.”
“Do you?” Laura looked at her oddly. “I hope we are going to appreciate all they have done for us.”
“Aren’t we showing it?” Elliott felt 121 really indignant at her cousin. “Think of the sacrifices we’re making for them.”
“Sacrifices?”
How stupid Laura was! “You know as well as I do how many things we are giving up.”
“Sugar, for instance?” queried Laura.