And she had said it on the way, and had said it in the class, too, when called on by Miss Emerine.
Aunt Cordelia, plump and pleasant soul, had ways of her own, and Emmy Lou in ways even beyond the plumpness was modeled on her. Aunt Cordelia said "were" as though it were spelled w-a-r-e, and Emmy Lou said it that way too.
"'And five ware wise, and five ware foolish,'" Emmy Lou told Miss Emerine.
"Five what?" Miss Emerine asked, which was unfortunate, this being what Emmy Lou had failed to remember.
It was Tom, the new house-boy, who really started Emmy Lou's recruiting for St. Simeon's. Hearing Aunt Louise ask her what she was doing about looking up new scholars, he volunteered his help.
"There's a li'l girl up the street whar I wuked once is thinkin' about changin' her Sunday school. I'll tell her to come aroun' an' see you."
The little girl came around promptly. It was Mamie Sessums. Emmy Lou knew her at week-day school. Far from being without a conviction, as Hattie had claimed, she now had two.
"My mother says Tom don't do anything but try to have her change my Sunday school. He lived with us before he went to live at Sadie's. But she says she's very glad to have me stop Hattie's and go with you. She didn't send me there to have the minister go by our house every day and never come in. Sadie's minister never came to call on her when I went to that Sunday school either. Do you have tickets at your Sunday school?"
Tickets were vindicated. Emmy Lou hurried upstairs and came back with all her trophies of this nature. Mamie seemed impressed by the Bible in Colors.
"You get them a picture at a time," Emmy Lou explained. "The first one is Adam in buff."