E-text prepared by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) SOWING AND SEWING. A Sexagesima Story. by CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 39, West Twenty-Third Street. PREFACE. PERHAPS some may read allusions to a sacred Parable underlying this little story. If so, I hope they will not think it an irreverent mode of applying the lesson. C. M. YONGE. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE THE SERMON 1 CHAPTER II. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL 13 CHAPTER III. THE WORKING PARTY 28 CHAPTER IV. TEACHER AMY 49 CHAPTER V. THE TROUSSEAU 64 CHAPTER VI. STITCH, STITCH, STITCH 79 CHAPTER VII. WANDERING EYES 101 CHAPTER VIII. AMY'S VISITS 115 CHAPTER IX. AWKWARD MEETINGS 127 CHAPTER X. THE RECKONING 150 CHAPTER XI. WHICH SHALL PROSPER? 159 SOWING AND SEWING. CHAPTER I. THE SERMON. FOUR girls were together in a pleasant cottage room with a large window, over which fluttered some dry sticks, which would in due time bear clematis and Virginia creeper leaves. Three of them were Miss Lee's apprentices, and this room had been built out at the back of the baker's shop for them. The place was the property of the Lee family themselves, and nobody in Langley was more respected than they were. Ambrose Lee, whose name was over the baker's shop, and who kept a horse and cart, was always called Mr. Lee. He had married a pretty, delicate young girl, who had soon fallen into such hopeless ill-health, that his sister Charlotte was obliged to live at home to attend to her and to the shop. And when young Mrs. Lee died, leaving three small children, another sister, Rose, gave up her place to help in the care of her old father and the little ones.