At first Betsey Bobbitt was very quiet; this was most unusual, but she listened attentively to the plans of all the others. Just then they came to a candy shop in which was displayed a most tempting array of candies.
Like a flash Betsey Bobbitt made her decision, and when she said she wanted to be a teacher of "Domestic Science" the other little girls were so impressed that their own plans were forgotten; in fact some of them did not even know what "Domestic Science" meant and they were very eager to learn.
So Betsey Bobbitt explained as best she could, what she knew about it and how she ever came to think of such a future; she told them of her mother's friend who went to college to learn how to become a teacher of "Domestic Science," which included knowing how to cook just everything, the best of all being the most, oh! most delicious candies, and that was what she, Betsey Bobbitt, wanted to study.
The little girls were very much excited and looked first at the pretty candies wistfully and then at Betsey Bobbitt with awe as it seemed to them very wonderful for any one to be able to make such delicious candies.
Betsey Bobbitt herself was so enthused that she could not wait for the others, so with another hasty glance at the candies and a hurried goodbye to her friends she left them and ran all the way home to tell mother about her wonderful plan for the future.
Mother knew at once that something very special must have happened and as soon as Betsey could gain her breath it all came out.
When Betsey Bobbitt finished her story she received the happiest surprise of her short life, for mother, seeing how earnest and eager her little girl was over her new plan, had been thinking rapidly, and so when all had been told Betsey's mother laughed merrily at her little daughter and said: "Why wait until you are old enough to go to college? Wouldn't you like to begin to learn now?"
Do you wonder Betsey Bobbitt nearly fell off her chair, for when she really understood that mother was to teach her to make candy, she bobbed about all over the room, exclaiming: "Oh! mother, may I really and truly?" and, again: "Oh! mother, I don't think I'll even want to look at penny candy again!"
This pleased mother so much that she began at once to look up all the simple ways of making candy that she herself had learned when she was a little girl like Betsey, as well as many that had been given to her or that she had cut from favorite magazines and cook books.