Show 41 4 1 A CRAZY QUILT dy MALLOCH ifor do not make them any mere for quilts are cheaper at the store than womans comans labor though a wife men me think tho cheapest thing in life hut ut now and then a quilt Is upon a 4 quaint old walnut bed A crazy quilt of those old days that I 1 am old enough to praise somo gome woman sewed these points pointe and squares into a pattern like lifes cares hero here lg iv a flannel was strong tho the poplin that sho she wore so long A fragment from a daughters daugn dreis dregs like her a vanished loveliness odd Put patches ClIeS of such things as these old garments and old memories and what Is life A crazy quilt sorrow and joy and grace giace and guilt with here and there a square of blue for some old happiness we knew for so the hand of time will take the fragments of our lives and make out of lifes remnants as they fall A tiling thing of beauty after all A 1923 douglas malloch |