She was piecing a quilt.

"Throw down that quilt," I said, "I want it.

The first meeting of the Knox Church Ladies' Aid, after the return of Mrs. Coombe and Jane, was held for the purpose of putting together a quilt, not the old-fashioned kind, of course, but something quite newan autograph quilt, very chaste.

I value all things he had lately or ever touched; even the old quilt that used to be spread on my bed for him to lie on, and which we called Mossy's quilt; and the pan that he used to drink out of in the parlor, and which was always called Mossy's pan, dear darling!

SEE Whitbeck, R. H. FINLEY, RUTH E. Old patchwork quilts and the women who made them.

It was the Princesses de Conti and de Soissons who drew off the ermined quilt, the Princesse de Condé and the Duchesse de Montpensier by whom he was undressed, and Mademoiselle de Bourbon who adjusted his state robes.

Then they all got on the bed in the corner and pulled a quilt over them to wait for Santa Claus.

In Guzerat there is great abundance of cotton, which grows on trees six fathoms high, that last for twenty years; but after twelve years old, the cotton of these trees is not good for spinning; and is only fit for making quilts.

I went to the sewing circle and helped tuck a quilt, had a talk with Mrs. W., got home at a quarter of one and ate two apples, and have been since then reading the secret correspondence of Madame Guyon and Fenelon in old French.

Us had blankets an' quilts filled wid home raised wool an' I jus' loved layin' in de big fat feather bed a-hearin' de rain patter on de roof.

Aunt Patsy never finished her crazy quilt, several pieces being wanted to one corner of it; but in the few days preceding her burial two old women of the congregation, with trembling hands and uncertain eyes, sewed in these pieces, and finished the quilt, in which the body of the venerable sister was wrapped, according to her well-known wish and desire.

Soon after the man left, the landlady called her spouse to the inner room, and showing him her bargain, said she had been induced to buy the quilt, because it was an exact match for the one in the large room up-stairs.

On the crumpled feather bed lay a tumbled, crumpled quilt.

I followed the heiress of the dilapidated houseshe was a descendant of the original ownerthrough the dingy kitchen, where upon the hearth the fire of sticks that she had just lighted was blazing cheerfully, into a back room, where there were two beds without linen, and with nothing but patchwork quilts over big bundles of dry maize leaves.

I picked up the quilt, threw it over him, tucked him in as my mother used to tuck me in,thinking of her as I did itand went back to my bunk.

"Since we are husband and wife," he said impatiently, "why do we not sleep under the same blanket?" As he spoke, he pushed back the thick quilt, and began to observe the garment on the so sweet and smooth, so soft and graceful body.

They would quilt out a quilt and dance the rest of the night.

The truth now became apparent; the artful pedlar had actually sold the landlady her own quilt!

She wanted us to come to her house, but it's the size of a butter-box, and stuffy; so she insisted on sending three quilts.

I've washed and ironed, sewed a right smart and quilted quilts.

" Interviewer's Comment The old lady took me in the house and showed me about a dozen quilts, beautifully patterned and made.

He was intently absorbed in sketching a prosperous group of weeds, a crazy quilt of wildly jostling colour, that had grown up around the decay of a fallen tree, and made a fine blazon of contrast against the massed foliage in the background.

I delighted to spell out the album quilt until I knew almost every line by heart; while the curious medley which these different scraps of poetry presented reminded me very much of a play, in which one person repeats a line, to which another must find a rhyme.

When she had brought me a meal she fetched fresh hay from a barn and spread a quilt over it and made a bed for me, and would have given me her own pillow but that I pointed out that my pack itself made a very good resting-place for my head.

Here, you stan' on that side the quilt, whiles I stir my foot to the flo' where it won't slipan' Diceywhere's that nigger Dicey?