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قراءة كتاب When Sarah Went to School
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WHEN SARAH WENT
TO SCHOOL
WHEN SARAH WENT
TO SCHOOL
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY ELSIE SINGMASTER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE
THIS BOOK OR PARTS THEREOF IN ANY FORM
Published October 1910
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
TO THE MEMORY OF OUR
GRANDMOTHER
SARAH MATTERN SINGMASTER
"What did the other children do?
And what were childhood, wanting you?"
CONTENTS
I. | The Dress Parade | 1 |
II. | The Normal | 21 |
III. | Sarah loses her Temper | 44 |
IV. | Sarah explains | 65 |
V. | Professor Minturn's Experiment | 81 |
VI. | The "Christmas Carol" | 99 |
VII. | Sarah saves the Day Once More | 121 |
VIII. | The Result of Professor Minturn's Experiment | 139 |
IX. | The State Board | 158 |
X. | The Chairman makes a Speech | 173 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
"It is not right for me to go" (page 18) | Frontispiece |
On the Threshold stood Miss Ellingwood | 64 |
She seems to have fainted | 146 |
He kept her beside him | 186 |
From drawings by Wilson C. Dexter.
WHEN SARAH WENT TO
SCHOOL
CHAPTER I THE DRESS PARADE
Across the angle of the post-and-rail fence at the lower corner of the Wenners' yard, a board had been laid, and behind the board stood a short, slender, bright-eyed young girl, her hands busy with an assortment of small articles spread out before her. There were a few glass beads, a string of buttons, half a dozen small, worn toys, a basket of early apples, and a plate of crullers. When they were arranged to her satisfaction, she took an apple in one hand and a cruller in the other, and, climbing the fence, perched on the upper rail and began to eat.
Before she had taken more than two bites an extraordinary procession appeared round the corner of the house. Ellen Louisa, one of the Wenner twins, dressed in a long gingham dress of her sister-in-law's, leaned affectionately upon the arm of the other twin, Louisa Ellen, who wore with ludicrous effect a coat and hat of their brother William's. Clinging to Louisa Ellen's hand was a small fat boy. They solemnly approached the improvised store.
"Is any one at home in this store?" asked Louisa Ellen in a gruff voice.
The proprietress slid down from the top of the fence. She spoke carefully, but she did not quite succeed in disguising her Pennsylvania-German accent.
"Well, sir, what is it to-day?"
"I want—" It was Ellen Louisa, who spoke in a simpering tone—"I want a penny's worth of what you can get the most of for a penny, missis. I want it for my little boy. Apples will do. He has it sometimes in his stomach, and—"
A loud crash interrupted Ellen Louisa's account of Albert's delicate constitution. He had seized the propitious moment for the purloining of two crullers, and in order to establish his ownership, had taken a large bite out of each. It was the storekeeper's quick grab which brought the counter to the ground, and mingled all the wares in wild confusion on the grass.
Albert looked frightened. When, instead