Serve Well Hosiery Box (Poignantly Filled with Bingo Game, as Found) mustard bot seeming to make the argument

seeming to make the argument for ale as the essential stuff of life

and with the added joy of running one's fingers through them

This is the third of three early 20th century Dutch school work samplers I am listing

and a page of "Judgment notes" including the following: "I am constrained to plant a grove / for the fair maid that I love / of nineteen trees in nine strait rows / Nine in each row I must place / Or I will never see her face

Serve Well Hosiery Box (Poignantly Filled with Bingo Game, as Found) mustard bot seeming to make the argumentThis one. So loaded, one could write a thesis on it. A Serve Well Hosiery box, c. 1940s or so I believe, implying all sorts of possibilities for "serving well." Once it contained size 9 Ginger Brown stockings, but was found with Bingo cards and numbers inside, including some make do number substitutions written on cardboard representing a presumably well earned escape from serving well! And it does not seem very far fetched to me to imagine the wearer