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BIOGRAPHY. oT
to sew, constantly lost meshes when she was knitting, and
would never take them up. When she dropped any meshes,
she did not say a word, but, quick as lightning, she threw
the stocking under her chair and-ran out of the room.
“Bonne Amie” used to be very much aniused at this
manceuvre. We knew perfectly well what was the matter,
when Fredrika, silently and in haste, made off, and the
stocking was lying under her chair.
“ Bonnie Amie” had in her youth learnt to make very
beautiful things in pasteboard. In order to amuse us, she
taught us in the long autumn evenings, after we came to
town, the art of making small work-boxes, baskets, needle-
cases, &c., &c., which, succeeding more or less, were always
admired by us; and to educate us, she proposed that we
should sell these things, and, for the proceeds, buy stuff for
shirts and clothes which we were to make up for poor chil-
dren and distribute at Christmas. ‘This proposal gave us a
great deal of pleasure ; and thus “ Bonne Amie” gained
her object, —to create in us a desire to assist those who
were in want; to gain, by working, the means of doing so ;
or, by denying ourselves things that were not indispensably
necessary, to apply our means in quarters where they were
better wanted. We were astonished at the ready sale
which our work met with, which we were told had been
sent out to be sold. It was long before we discovered that
my mother and “ Bonne Amie” had bought most of it.
During three winters Fredrika, Hedda, and I took les-
sons in dancing, which delighted us very much. Fredrika
was so weak about this time, that when, at the beginning
of every lesson, she had to curtsey, standing behind a
chair in all the five positions, she was often on the point of
falling down; and her small feet were so soft and lissom
that our teacher, when she was going to bend them, fancied
they were broken to pieces.
It was the fashion in those days to make beautiful pas
and entrechats when dancing quadrilles, as the modern fran-
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