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Comfort Pease and Her Gold Ring - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Comfort Pease and Her Gold Ring
Published by Good Press, 2022
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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 she's eight years old, what a pity 'twould be, when it's real gold, too!
But when Comfort was eight years old she was very small for her age, and she could actually crowd two of her fingers—the little one and the third—into the ring. She begged her mother to let her wear it so, but she would not. No,
said she, I sha'n't let you make yourself a laughing-stock by wearing a ring any such way as that. Besides, you couldn't use your fingers. You've got to wait till your hand grows to it.
So poor little Comfort waited, but she had a discouraged feeling sometimes that her hand never would grow to it. Suppose I shouldn't be any bigger than you, mother,
she said, couldn't I ever wear the ring?
Hush! you will be bigger than I am. All your father's folks are, and you look just like them,
said her mother, conclusively, and Comfort tried to have faith. The gold dollar also could only impart the simple delight of possession, for it was not to be spent. I am going to give her a gold dollar to keep beside the ring,
Aunt Comfort had said.
"What is it