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Title: Comfort Pease and her Gold Ring

Author: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Release Date: March 1, 2006 [EBook #17888]

Language: English

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Comfort Pease

And her Gold Ring

By

Mary E. Wilkins

Author of Prembroke, Jane Field, A Humble Romance, etc., etc.

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One of the first things which Comfort remembered being told was that
she had been named for her Aunt Comfort, who had given her a gold
ring and a gold dollar for her name. Comfort could not understand
why. It always seemed to her that her aunt, and not she, had given
the name, and that she should have given the ring and the dollar; but
that was what her mother had told her. "Your Aunt Comfort gave you
this beautiful gold ring and this gold dollar for your name," said
she.

The ring and the dollar were kept in Mrs. Pease's little rosewood
work-box, which she never used for needlework, but as a repository
for her treasures. Her best cameo brooch was in there, too, and a
lock of hair of Comfort's baby brother who died.

One of Comfort's chiefest delights was looking at her gold ring and
gold dollar. When she was very good her mother would unlock the
rosewood box and let her see them. She had never worn the ring--it
was much too large for her. Aunt Comfort and her mother had each
thought that it was foolish to buy a gold ring that she could
outgrow. "If it was a chameleon ring I wouldn't care," said Aunt
Comfort; "but it does seem a pity when it's a real gold ring." So
the ring was bought a little too large for Comfort's mother. She was
a very small woman, and Comfort was a large baby, and, moreover,
favored her father's family, who were all well grown, and Aunt
Comfort feared she might have larger fingers.

"Why, I've seen girls eight years old with fingers a good deal bigger
than yours, Emily," she said. "Suppose Comfort shouldn't be able to
get that ring on her finger after