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GOLDEN DAYS
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(Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by
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VOL. VIII.

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PHILADELPHIA MAY 21, 1887.

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No. 25.

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LINDA'S CRAZY QUILT.

By Fannie Williams.

"Oh, dear!" sighed Linda Trafton, turning over the pages of a
closely-written, school-girlish letter, which her brother Fred had
tossed into her lap, on returning from the post office. "I do wish I
could get silk pieces enough to make a crazy quilt. Cousin Dell writes
all about hers, and it must be very pretty."

"Crazy quilt! That's about all I've heard for the last six months!
I should think you girls had all gone crazy yourselves!" ejaculated
Fred.

"Why, Fred!" was Linda's only answer to this outburst.

She was a very sweet-tempered little maid, with soft, brown hair and
soft, brown eyes, that matched in color as exactly as eyes and hair
could match, and gave her a look of being--as indeed she was--too gentle
to dispute, or even to argue, with anybody, least of all with Fred, who
was fifteen, and three years her elder, and always took a tone of great
superiority toward his little sister.

Still, he was a pretty good sort of brother, as brothers go; and, in
Linda's eyes, he was a prodigy of cleverness.

So, whenever they happened to differ in opinion, and Fred expressed
himself in this vehement style, she only looked at him in a deprecating
way, and murmured:

"Why, Fred!"

"Well, I should like to know," continued Fred, "what could be more
idiotic than the way you spend your time, you girls, fitting those
ridiculous, catty-cornered pieces of silk together, and working them all
over with bugs