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Bessie in the City
Bessie in the City
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CONTENTS.
Page
I. Little Friends at Home, 9
II. Maggie's Plan, 30
III. The Miser, 52
IV. Flossy, 73
V. The Colonel's Story, 104
VI. The Story Continued, 127
VII. The Peach-Stones, 147
VIII. The New Gloves, 167
IX. Two Lost Pets, 187
X. Home Again, 212
XI. New Plans, 236
XII. A Visitor, 255
XIII. The Bank-Notes, 281
XIV. Discovery, 297
XV. The Snow, 309
XVI. Shopping for Christmas, 330
XVII. Christmas, 352
XVIII. The Purchase of the Library, 378
I.
LITTLE FRIENDS AT HOME.
MAMMA," said Maggie Bradford, as she sat upon the floor in her mother's room, lacing her walking boots,—"mamma, I wish I had another terrible fault."
"Why, Maggie!" said Mrs. Bradford.
"I do, indeed, mamma,—a dreadful fault, something a great deal worse than carelessness."
Mrs. Bradford was busy unpacking trunks and arranging drawers and closets; for the family had just come home from the sea-shore, where they had been spending the summer;[Pg 10] but she was so surprised to hear Maggie say this that she turned around with her hands full, to look at her little daughter. She saw that Maggie was very much in earnest, and had some reason for this strange wish.
"And why do you wish that, daughter?" she asked.
"Because, mamma, if I had such a fault, people would be so very anxious I should cure it. Oh, dear! there's another knot in my shoe-string!" and Maggie gave a jerk and a hard pull at her boot-lace. "I do not at all wish to keep it, only to break myself of it."
"But why should you wish for a fault which would grieve your friends and trouble yourself only that you may be at the pains of curing it, Maggie? You have faults enough, dear; and if they are not what may be called very terrible, they are quite serious enough to need all your attention, and you should be thankful that it does not require a harder struggle to overcome them."
Page
I. Little Friends at Home, 9
II. Maggie's Plan, 30
III. The Miser, 52
IV. Flossy, 73
V. The Colonel's Story, 104
VI. The Story Continued, 127
VII. The Peach-Stones, 147
VIII. The New Gloves, 167
IX. Two Lost Pets, 187
X. Home Again, 212
XI. New Plans, 236
XII. A Visitor, 255
XIII. The Bank-Notes, 281
XIV. Discovery, 297
XV. The Snow, 309
XVI. Shopping for Christmas, 330
XVII. Christmas, 352
XVIII. The Purchase of the Library, 378
I.
LITTLE FRIENDS AT HOME.
MAMMA," said Maggie Bradford, as she sat upon the floor in her mother's room, lacing her walking boots,—"mamma, I wish I had another terrible fault."
"Why, Maggie!" said Mrs. Bradford.
"I do, indeed, mamma,—a dreadful fault, something a great deal worse than carelessness."
Mrs. Bradford was busy unpacking trunks and arranging drawers and closets; for the family had just come home from the sea-shore, where they had been spending the summer;[Pg 10] but she was so surprised to hear Maggie say this that she turned around with her hands full, to look at her little daughter. She saw that Maggie was very much in earnest, and had some reason for this strange wish.
"And why do you wish that, daughter?" she asked.
"Because, mamma, if I had such a fault, people would be so very anxious I should cure it. Oh, dear! there's another knot in my shoe-string!" and Maggie gave a jerk and a hard pull at her boot-lace. "I do not at all wish to keep it, only to break myself of it."
"But why should you wish for a fault which would grieve your friends and trouble yourself only that you may be at the pains of curing it, Maggie? You have faults enough, dear; and if they are not what may be called very terrible, they are quite serious enough to need all your attention, and you should be thankful that it does not require a harder struggle to overcome them."
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