{"product_id":"2940013680685","title":"Pat of Silver Bush","description":"\"Oh, oh, and I think I'll soon have to be doing some rooting in the\u003cbr\u003eparsley bed,\" said Judy Plum, as she began to cut Winnie's red\u003cbr\u003ecrepe dress into strips suitable for \"hooking.\"  She was very much\u003cbr\u003epleased with herself because she had succeeded in browbeating Mrs.\u003cbr\u003eGardiner into letting her have it.  Mrs. Gardiner thought Winnie\u003cbr\u003emight have got another summer's wear out of it.  Red crepe dresses\u003cbr\u003ewere not picked up in parsley beds, whatever else might be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Judy had set her heart on that dress.  It was exactly the shade\u003cbr\u003eshe wanted for the inner petals of the fat, \"raised\" roses in the\u003cbr\u003efine new rug she was hooking for Aunt Hazel . . . a rug with\u003cbr\u003egolden-brown \"scrolls\" around its edges and, in the centre,\u003cbr\u003eclusters of red and purple roses such as never grew on any earthly\u003cbr\u003erose-bush.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJudy Plum \"had her name up,\" as she expressed it, for hooked rugs,\u003cbr\u003eand she meant that this should be a masterpiece.  It was to be a\u003cbr\u003ewedding gift for Aunt Hazel, if that young lady really got married\u003cbr\u003ethis summer, as, in Judy's opinion, it was high time she should,\u003cbr\u003eafter all her picking and choosing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePat, who was greatly interested in the rug's progress, knew nothing\u003cbr\u003eexcept that it was for Aunt Hazel.  Also, there was another event\u003cbr\u003eimpending at Silver Bush of which she was ignorant and Judy thought\u003cbr\u003eit was high time she was warned.  When one has been the \"baby\" of a\u003cbr\u003efamily for almost seven years just how is one going to take a\u003cbr\u003esupplanter?  Judy, who loved everybody at Silver Bush in reason,\u003cbr\u003eloved Pat out of reason and was worried over this beyond all\u003cbr\u003emeasure.  Pat was always after taking things a bit too seriously.\u003cbr\u003eAs Judy put it, she \"loved too hard.\"  What a scene she had been\u003cbr\u003eafter making that very morning because Judy wanted her old purple\u003cbr\u003esweater for the roses.  It was far too tight for her and more holy\u003cbr\u003ethan righteous, if ye plaze, but Pat wouldn't hear of giving it up.\u003cbr\u003eShe loved that old sweater and she meant to wear it another year.\u003cbr\u003eShe fought so tigerishly about it that Judy . . . of course . . .\u003cbr\u003egave in.  Pat was always like that about her clothes.  She wore\u003cbr\u003ethem until they simply wouldn't look at her because they were so\u003cbr\u003edear to her she couldn't bear to give them up.  She hated her new\u003cbr\u003eduds until she had worn them for a few weeks.  Then she turned\u003cbr\u003earound and loved them fiercely, too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A quare child, if ye'll belave me,\" Judy used to say, shaking her\u003cbr\u003egrizzled head.  But she would have put the black sign on any one\u003cbr\u003eelse who called Pat a queer child.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What makes her queer?\" Sidney had asked once, a little\u003cbr\u003ebelligerently.  Sidney loved Pat and didn't like to hear her called\u003cbr\u003equeer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sure, a leprachaun touched her the day she was born wid a liddle\u003cbr\u003egreen rose-thorn,\" answered Judy mysteriously.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJudy knew all about leprachauns and banshees and water-kelpies and\u003cbr\u003efascinating beings like that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"So she can't ever be just like other folks.  But it isn't all to\u003cbr\u003ethe bad.  She'll be after having things other folks can't have.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What things?\" Sidney was curious.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"She'll love folks . . . and things . . . better than most . . .\u003cbr\u003eand that'll give her the great delight.  But they'll hurt her more,\u003cbr\u003etoo.  'Tis the way of the fairy gift and ye have to take the bad\u003cbr\u003ewid the good.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If that's all the leppern did for her I don't think he amounts to\u003cbr\u003emuch,\" said young Sidney scornfully.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"S . . . sh!\" Judy was scandalised.  \"Liddle ye know what may be\u003cbr\u003elistening to ye.  And I'm not after saying it was all.  She'll SEE\u003cbr\u003ethings.  Hundreds av witches flying be night over the woods and\u003cbr\u003esteeples on broomsticks, wid their black cats perched behind them.\u003cbr\u003eHow wud ye like that?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Aunt Hazel says there aren't any such things as witches,\u003cbr\u003e'specially in Prince Edward Island,\" said Sidney.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If ye don't be belaving innything what fun are ye going to get out\u003cbr\u003eav life?\" asked Judy unanswerably.  \"There may niver be a witch in\u003cbr\u003eP. E. Island but there's minny a one in ould Ireland even yet.  The\u003cbr\u003egrandmother av me was one.\"","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079649607920,"sku":"2940013680685","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013680685_p0.jpg?v=1763584278","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013680685","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}