文档介绍：THE FLAG-RAISING
THE FLAG-RAISING
by KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
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THE FLAG-RAISING
I
A DIFFERENCE IN HEARTS
"I DON'know as I cal'lated to be the makin' of any child," Miranda had
said as she folded Aurelia's letter and laid it in the light- stand drawer. "I
s'posed of course Aurelia would send us the one we asked for, but it's just
like her to palm off that wild young one on somebody else." "You
remember we said that a, or even Jenny e, in case
Hannah could n't," interposed Jane.
"I know we did, but we hadn't any notion it would turn out that way,"
grumbled Miranda. "She was a mite of a thing when we saw her three
years ago," ventured Jane; "she's had time to improve." "And time to grow
worse!" "Won't it be kind of a privilege to put her on the right track?"
asked Jane timidly. "I don' know about the privilege part; it'll be
considerable work, I guess. If her mother hasn't got her on the right track
by now, she won't take to it herself all of a sudden." This depressed and
depressing frame of mind had lasted until th
eventful day dawned on which a was to arrive.
"If she makes as much work after es as she has before, we
might as well give up hope of ever gettin' any rest," sighed Miranda as she
hung the dish towels on the barberry bushes at the side door. "But we
should have had to clean house, a or no a," urged Jane; "and
I can't see why you've scrubbed and washed and baked as you have for
that one child, nor why you've about bought out Watson's stock of dry
goods." "I know Aurelia if you don't," responded Miranda. "I've seen her
house, and I've seen that batch o' children, wearin' one another's clothes
and never carin' whether they had 'em on right side out or not; I know
what they've had to live and dress on, and so do you. That child will like
as e here with a bundle o' things borrowed from the rest o' the
family. She'll have Hannah's shoes and John's undershirts and Mark's
socks most likely. I suppose she never had a thimble on