Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 512
No matter what the weather is, she 11 shakeher head and say, T is vain, my dear, to wish to wear your bestfrock every day. And yet this very afternoon (I was nt dressed at all,But lyii% on the window-seat just wrapped up $\ a shawl)I heard my little mothers voice, in tones of deep distress:/ cannot… … Then, when we re at our supper I am sure / never makeComplaints about my bread and milk, thats nicer far than cake.If you hear a dreadful teasing, — oh, you need nt look at me,—It s just my motlier begging for a cup of truly tea ! And sometimes Im in bed at six, and some-times half-past two!…
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