Little Miss Mouse

Excerpt: Aunt Hester, do you like to make buttonholes? Ruth asked with interest in her tones. No, was the answer, I hate to make them. Aunt Hester bit off her thread fiercely. I hate them, she repeated, reaching for her spool which had fallen under the chair. Ruth made a scramble for it, picked it up and laid it in Aunt Hester's lap. If you don't like to make them, what's the reason you do it? she...