noon
She did not know the silk letters , and would not have understood the verse if she had heard it read ; but neither did the big sister understand it herself . `` Be _ this _ the business of her youth , '' Mary thought meant the _ sampler _ , for really that sampler _ had _ been the business of her youth ever since she had learned to hold a needle , and the tree was n't done yet , and the flowers were flying out of the flower-pot on account of having no stems to stand on . Patty was ashamed because she herself had no canvass with silk pictures on it to carry out to the `` mistress . '' The more she thought about it , the more restless she grew , till before noon she fell to crying , and said aloud , -- '' _ I _ want to work a _ sambler _ ; yes , I do . '' Miss Judkins told Mary she had better take her home . Patty felt disgraced , and cried all the way , she did not really know what for . Sometimes she thought it was because the school was such a poor place to go to , and then again she thought it was because she wanted to work a `` sambler . ''