MRS HALE slips box under quilt pieces, and sinks into her chair.

The President tapped with her thimble upon the quilting frame and every one became very busy.

The Standard book of quilt making and collecting.

Says he: "As my carriage rattled through the quiet streets of Tonneins, and the postilion smacked his whip with the French love of racket, I looked out for the house where, forty years before, I had seen the quilting party.

She showed me twenty-two finished quilt tops, each of a different design and several of the same design, or about thirty quilts in all.

Quilt-pattern; poem.

Strange bedfellows: my crazy-quilt memoirs, life maxims and what-not.

So saying, the resolute little woman tugged at the quilt-frame until she loosened it from its fastenings, and then started to return.

" Much work was needed to supply the demands of so large a plantation but the slaves were often given time off for frolics (dances), (quilting-weddings).

She don't encour'ge him much to go to her school, though, 'cause it interrupts her in her housekeepin' consider'ble, an' she's had extry quilt-patchin' on hand ever since he come.

She had pulled a quilt round her shoulders over her nightdress.

He had never mingled much in societyhe was not fond of it; and the "quilting bees" and "sugar pulls" and "apple parings" which had prevailed in his neighborhood were not at all to his taste.

In his younger days, when he and Abigail Jones attended the quilting-frolics together and the "paring bees," he had with other young men, tried his feet at Scotch reels, French fours, "The Cheat," and the "Twin Sisters," with occasionally a cotillion, but he was not accomplished in the art.

"I had a quilt book with a lot o' different patterns but I loaned it to a woman and she carried it to Oklahoma.