Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1890 — A STITCH DROPPED. [ARTICLE]

A STITCH DROPPED.

Grandma sat busily knitting away A tflm little stocking, all scarlet and gray; Katy stood, leaning on grandma’s knee, Anxiously watching and waiting to see How quickly the pretty stripes could grow, With grandma's fingers a-fiylng so.. AD as once, in s round of gray, y The busy needles ceased their play. “Dear me,” said grandma, “1 can’t tell which, But somewhere here I have dropped a stitch, And 1 cannot aee, it has grown so late, To pick it ip so we most wait TUI the lamps come in.” Down Katy went. Moved by a sudden kind Intent, Down in the firelight on the floor, Searching the hearth rug o’er and o’er, \ ---- “What are you looking lor, my child?” Mamma qnestioned, and slyly smiled; Soberly answered the little witch, “I'm trying to find my grandma's stitch.” . —Yonth’s O ompanlon. The pollan worn In the Middle Ages were ruff affairs. r