The sun, where it could catch it, made a mirror of Thomasin's hair, which she always wore braided. It was braided according to a calendar sys-tem—the more important the day the more numerous the strands in the braid. On ordinary working-days she braided it in threes; on ordinary Sundays in fours; at Maypolings, gip-syings, and the like, she braided it in fives. Years ago she had said that when she married she would braid it in sevens. She had braided it in sevens today.
