Names My Sisters Call Me

And my little sister did not get any cake for supper. XIV. My Naughty Little Sister Learns to Knit When my sister was five and she went to school, a nice woman and her husband came to live near our house. The woman's name was Mrs. Jones. But my little sister called her Mrs. Cocoa Jones. Do you know why my sister called her so? In summer, when we had our school vacation, Nancy went to Mrs. Jones every morning at eleven o'clock to drink cocoa. Mrs. Jones had no children, and she did not like to drink her cocoa alone. She liked to talk to my little sister. They were good friends. That is why49 my little sister called her Mrs. Cocoa Jones. Mrs. Cocoa Jones liked to knit. She knitted in the morning and in the afternoon, and she knitted at tea-time when her friends came to see her. She talked and knitted. She knitted many nice things for my sister and me and for our dolls, too. One day Mrs. Cocoa Jones said to my sister: "Do you want to learn to knit?" "Not very much,'' said my sister. "But you can make presents for your mother, father and sister's said Mrs. Jones. "I like to make presents ...»