Comfort Pease

And her Gold Ring


By

Mary E. Wilkins

Author of Prembroke, Jane Field, A Humble Romance, etc., etc.


Fleming H. Revell Company
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MDCCCXCV




One of the first things which Comfort remembered being told was that
she had been named for her Aunt Comfort, who had given her a gold
ring and a gold dollar for her name. Comfort could not understand
why. It always seemed to her that her aunt, and not she, had given
the name, and that she should have given the ring and the dollar; but
that was what her mother had told her. "Your Aunt Comfort gave you
this beautiful gold ring and this gold dollar for your name," said
she.

The ring and the dollar were kept in Mrs. Pease's little rosewood
work-box, which she never used for needlework, but as a repository