A Kindred to the Rescue

[Trina]

Neil wrote:

Quoting someone else (lost the original thread! Sorry!)

> Fold your hands child ... I don't have the derivation for it but it 
does havean echo (don't ya hate that!) I think it comes from a 
children's book in which the child is also always being admonished 
not to 'swing her ankles" by her governess.
> 
To which Neil replied:

I gathered that too, on a general level.  I had some vague idea it 
was a direct quote, possibly from "Anne of Green Gables" or something 
American [looks towards the Kindred Spirits on the list].


It's not from Anne of Green Gables or any other LMM book AFAIK, but 
other than that I can't really help!  

Trina, whose must read list is growing by the minute thanks to y'all!

Currently reading "The Wild Swans" by Peg Kerr