When she came back Mistress Mary put her arm round Lisa's waist and
said to the whole great family: 'Children, after trying hard, for
ever so long, Lisa has sewed this lovely picture all by herself.
There is not a wrong stitch, and one side is as neat as the other.
What shall we say?'
'Three cheers! The Chinese must go!' shouted Pat Higgins, a
patriotic person of five years, whose father was an organiser of
sand-lot meetings.
All the grown-ups laughed at this unexpected suggestion, but the
cheers were given with a good will, and Marm Lisa, her mind stirred
to its depths by the unwonted emotion, puzzled out the meaning of
them and hid it in her heart.
CHAPTER VI--FROM GRUBB TO BUTTERFLY
The children were all nearly a year older when Mrs. Grubb one day
climbed the flight of wooden steps heading to Marm Lisa's Paradise,
and met, as she did so, a procession of Mistress Mary's neophytes who
were wending their way homeward.
The spectacle of a number of persons of either sex, or of both sexes,
proceeding in hue or grouped as an audience, acted on Mrs. Grubb
precisely as the taste of fresh blood is supposed to act on a tiger
in captivity. At such a moment she had but one impulse, and that was
to address the meeting.
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