"Yes, indeed. And Ellen is going to give me some jars of her good mixed pickles."
"Oh, Ellen can help you a lot. Ask her to make you some mince pies and marmalade, and macaroons."
"Goody! Goody! I can have a regular food sale, all of M's! Why, it's a lovely letter, after all. I'm glad it's mine."
"How are they going to manage the Q and X and Z?"
"I think they're going to leave out X and Z. But Q is to be a table full of queer things. Indian curiosities, and such things. Miss Merington told me about it. Gladys is going to be with Miss Frost. She's going to make fudge, and paper fairies. And her father is going to give her a lot of fans,—Japanese ones,—and Dick is going to cut her out some fretwork things with his scroll-saw."
"Well, I think the ladies will have very helpful little assistants. I'll bring you a budget of things from the city, and we'll all have a bee to make candy for you."
The bee was great fun. The day before the Bazaar, Mr. Maynard brought home all sorts of goodies to make the candies with. He came home early that they might begin in the afternoon.
All the Maynard family went to work, and Ellen and Sarah helped some, too.
They made all sorts of candies that could be formed with the right shape and size for mottoes.
Rosy Posy, who loved to cut paper, snipped away at the sheets of printed verses, and really helped by cutting the couplets apart, all ready to be tucked into the papers with the candies.