“Send us a snapshot of her, Darry,” begged Jessie, not unwilling to tease her chum, for it was usually Amy who did the teasing.
“I should worry if Burd has a dozen maiden aunts,” observed Amy scornfully, “and they all knitted him red wristlets!”
“How savage,” groaned Darry. “Red wristlets, no less!”
The girls had news to relate to the boys as well. The church society was going to have a summer bazaar on the Fourth of July and a prize had been offered by the committee in charge for the most novel suggestion for a money-making “stunt” at the lawn party.
“I hope they will make enough to pay Doctor Stanley’s salary,” Darry said.
“We want to raise his salary,” Jessie told him. “With all those children I don’t see how he gets on.”
“He wouldn’t ‘get on’ at all if it wasn’t for Nell,” said Amy warmly. “She is a wonderful manager.”
The boys departed for City Island and the 54 Marigold the next morning; but they promised to return from their trip to Atlantic Highlands in season for the church bazaar.
For the next few days Jessie and Amy were busy almost all day long, and evening too, with the radio. They even listened to the weather predictions and the agricultural report and market prices!
The Norwood home never had been so popular before. People, especially Jessie’s school friends, were coming to the house constantly to look at the radio set and to “listen in” on the airways. The interest they all took in it was amusing.