Emily's Runaway Imagination
“Times were hard that year and the ladies who bought dress goods did not want to buy one inch more than they needed. Grandma would take the dress pattern and lay it out on the material before she cut the goods from the bolt. All the ladies in the store would gather around and watch, while Grandma figured and figured how to save material.
Emily leaned against the counter and watched. She listened, too, and she learned all sorts of interesting things. She learned, for example, that Arlene Twitchell never ate the crusts of her sandwiches. That was bad enough, but the shameful part was that her mother did not expect her to eat the crusts. She trimmed the crusts off Arlene’s sandwiches herself. The way she spoiled that girl! And the way the boys admired Arlene! Well… Emily did not see why anyone should expect Arlene to eat the crusts of her sandwiches. Arlene not only had curly hair, she was the prettiest girl in town. Who was Liberty holding aloft a cardboard torch in the Fourth of July parade?
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