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She studied the patterns of the calico very happily , as they rode along ; she thought them prettier than anything she had . One had pink roses on a green ground , and she thought that especially charming . Meantime , while Sally and her father and mother rode away in the chaise with the patchwork to Whitefield , ten miles distant , where their house was , Ann Lizy and Jane played as fast as they could . It was four o'clock before they went into the house . Ann Lizy opened her bag , which she had laid on the parlor table with the _ Young Lady 's Annuals _ and _ Mrs. Hemans 's Poems _ . `` I s ` pose I must sew my patchwork , '' said she , in a miserable , guilty little voice . Then she exclaimed .