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<h3>THE RED-LETTER DAY</h3>
<p><SPAN class="pagenum" name="page_30" id="page_30" title="30"></SPAN>"What's
a red-letter day, Nora?" asked Betty, coming into the kitchen
where Nora was doing the Saturday baking.</p>
<p>"It's a day when something 'specially nice happens," answered Nora.
"Why?"</p>
<p>"Mamma just said it would be a red-letter day if she got <i>all</i> her
mending done by night. I wish," added Betty wistfully, "that I could
make it a red-letter day for her!"</p>
<p>"You can!" cried Nora. "I'll show you how to make a cake, and then she
won't have to make it. She can have the time to mend."</p>
<p>"Goody, goody!" cried Betty, when her mamma said she might try.</p>
<p>"I didn't tell her about the red-letter part," she explained, as she and
Nora measured and beat and stirred. "That will make it another kind of
red-letter day—S for S'prise."</p>
<p>The cake came out of the oven light and flaky and beautiful.</p>
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<div class="figcenter"> <SPAN name="illus-028" id="illus-028"></SPAN> <ANTIMG src="images/gn28.jpg" alt=""I didn't tell her about the red-letter part," she explained, as she beat and stirred" title="" /><br/> <span class="caption">"I didn't tell her about the red-letter part," she explained, as she beat and stirred</span></div>
<p><SPAN class="pagenum" name="page_31" id="page_31" title="31"></SPAN>"Wouldn't
it be nice," sighed Betty, "if it could <i>only</i> have a red S
right in the middle?"</p>
<p>"It can," said Nora. "Make it of those tiny red candies of yours. You'll
have to work fast before the icing dries."</p>
<p>When the S was finished it was pretty crooked, even for an S. But there
was no doubt at all about what it was.</p>
<p>When dinner was on the table Betty brought in the cake and set it before
her mother.</p>
<p>"Well, well, well!" cried Mrs. Arnold. "What a fine little cook I have!
But what is the S for, Betty?"</p>
<p>"It stands for Saturday, mamma," said Betty. And then she told all about
the red-letter plan.</p>
<p>"It was a dear plan," said her mother. "And I did finish the mending.
And now I'll tell my little girl something else. S stands for Saturday,
but it stands for another word, too—it stands for my Sunshine," she
finished, giving Betty a loving kiss.</p>
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