Mrs. Saunders nodded and sighed, and then the shopwoman asked Mrs. Saunders if she required any baby clothes. Mrs. Saunders said she had all she required. The parcel was made up, and they were preparing to leave, when Esther said—
“I may as well buy the material and make another set—it will give me something to do in the afternoons. I think I should like to make them.”
“We have some first-rate longcloth at sixpence-half-penny a yard.”
“You might take three yards, Esther; if anything should happen to yer bairn it will always come in useful. And you had better take three yards of flannel. How much is yer flannel?”
“We have some excellent flannel,” said the woman, lifting down a long, heavy package in dull yellow paper; “this is ten-pence a yard. You will want a finer longcloth for the li
