文档介绍：SOMEBODY'S LITTLE GIRL
SOMEBODY'S LITTLE
GIRL
by Martha Young
Dedication
To Two Little Elizabeths: Elizabeth Young and Elizabeth Magruder
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SOMEBODY'S LITTLE GIRL
SOMEBODY'S LITTLE GIRL
If I were just to tell the things that Bessie Bell remembered I should
tell you some very strange things. Bessie Bell did not know whether she
remembered them, or just knew them, or whether they just grew, those
strange things in some strange country that never was wnywhere in the
world; for when Bessie Bell tried to tell about those strange things great
grown wise people said: ``No, no, Bessie Bell, there is nothing in the
world like that.''
So Bessie Bell just remembered and wondered.
She remembered how somewhere, sometime, there was a window
where you could look out and see everything green, little and green, and
always changing and moving, away, away--beyond everything little, and
green, and moving all the time. But great grown wise folks said: ``No,
there is no window in all the world like that.''
And once when some one gave Bessie Bell a little round red apple she
caught her breath very quickly and her little heart jumped and then
thumped very loudly (that is the way it seemed to her) and she
remembered: Little apple trees all just alike, and little apple trees in rows
all just alike on top of those and again on top of those until they came to a
great row of big round red apples on top of all.
Rut great grown people said: ``No, no, Bessie Bell, there are no apple
trees in all the world like that.''
And one time Bessie Bell was at a pretty house and somebody sat her
on a little low chair and said: `` Keep still, Bessie Bell.''
She kept still so long that at last she began to be afraid to move at all,
and she got afraid even to crook up her little finger for fear it would pop
off loud,--she had kept still so long that all her round little fingers and her
round little legs felt so stiff.
Then one, great grown person said: ``She see