All the little girls had on blue checked aprons. All the aprons had
straps and buttons behind.

For just one hour every day all the little tiny girls played in the
sand, and while they played Sister Mary Felice sat on a willow-
wrought bench and watched them play.

Then when that hour was exactly passed Sister Angela always came
with a basket of netted canes, an Indian basket, on her arm. In the
Indian basket were little cakes--such nice little cakes--always they
had caraway seeds in them.

One day Sister Mary Felice said: ``Sister Angela, did Sister
Ignatius put too many caraway seeds in the cakes this time?''

Sister Angela said: ``I think not, Sister Mary Felice. Will you try
one?''

Sister Mary Felice said: ``I thank you, Sister Angela.''

Then Sister Mary Felice took one to try.

Then always Sister Angela, with the Indian basket on her arm, took
all the little girls to the long back gallery that was latticed in.

On a low shelf close against the lattice sat a row of white basins.

Then all the little tiny girls washed their little tiny hands in the
white basins. And while they washed their little tiny hands by twos