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`` The same old way ? '' `` Yes ; the very same old way . '' `` We had little open-work straw hats and muslin pelisses , -- your Aunt Laura and I , '' -- began Mrs. Ripwinkley , as she had begun all those scores of times before . `` Mother put them on for us , -- she dressed us just alike , always , -- and told us to take each other 's hands , and go up Brier and down Hickory streets , and stop at all the houses that she named , and that we knew ; and we were to give her love and compliments , and ask the mothers in each house , -- Mrs. Dayton , and Mrs. Holridge -LRB- she lived up the long steps -RRB- , and Mrs. Waldow , and the rest of them , to let Caroline and Grace and Fanny and Susan , and the rest of _ them _ , come at four o'clock , to spend the afternoon and take tea , if it was convenient . '' `` O , mother ! '' said Hazel , `` you did n't say that when you _ asked _ people , you know . '' `` O , no ! ''