C. C.”
The two little girls cleared the table of the valentines and cards. Jimsi ran about picking up stray bits of paper that had flown to remote places beyond the newspapers. Joyce arranged the things on the table. It was moved close to her chair.
My, my! Such tempting sandwiches! And such dainty paper table-cloth and napkins, and paper plates! “There’s only one thing lacking,” declared Joyce, as she laid an extra plate at one end of the table for her mother. “Miss Phoebe ought to be here too!”
“Yes, she ought,” assented Jimsi. “Aunt Phoebe and the Good Crow!”
CHAPTER VII
The Embroidery Patterns in the Magic Book
IN the days that passed after Joyce and Jimsi made the valentines and cards, ever so many things happened. They played other things beside crow plays—checkers and dominoes and Messenger Boy games. But, after all, the Magic Book with the fun in it was best of all. Crow had written them both letters and in his last letter he had said:
“Dear Jimsi:
Find your own something to do in the Magic Book I gave you. If you think, you’ll find something more that is as jolly as valentine-making.”