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Although we have asked everybody on our street, they think boys sins can only be whipped out of them with a switch or strap, which makes us feel very sad, as boys when not sinning the dreadful sins mentioned above seem just as good as girls, and never cry when switched, and say it does not hurt much. We now approach girls, which we know better, being one. Girls seem better than boys because their sins are not so noisy and showy. They can disobey their parents and aunts, whisper in silent hour, cheat in lessons, say angry things to their schoolmates, tell lies, be sulky and lazy, but all these can be conducted quite ladylike and genteel, and nobody wants to strap girls because their skins are tender and get black and blue very easily. Punishments make one very unhappy and rewards very happy, and one would think when one is happy one would behave the best. We were acquainted with a girl who gave herself rewards every day for a week, and it seemed to make her as lovely a character as one could wish but perhaps if one went on for years giving rewards to onesself one would become selfish. One cannot tell, one can only fear. If a dog kills a sheep we should whip him straight away, and on the very spot where he can see the sheep, or he will not know what we mean, and may forget and kill another. The same is true of the human race. We must be firm and patient in punishing, no matter how much we love the one who has done wrong, and how hungry she is. It does no good to whip a person with one hand and offer her a pickled beet with the other. This confuses her mind, and she may grow up not knowing right from wrong. The striking example of the pickled beet was removed from the essay by the refined but ruthless Mi.tened of you, you dearest, dearest, dearest thing that ever was Mamma is going to help us, but Papa and the boys cheap mens football shirts are going to eat together downstairs for fear of making the little Ruggleses shy and after we ve had a merry time with the tree we can open my window and all listen together to the music at the evening church service, if it comes before the children go. I have written a letter to the organist, and asked him if I might have the two songs I like best. Will you see if it is all right Birds Nest, December 21, 188. Dear Mr. Wilkie, I am the little girl who lives next door to the church, personalised footballs uk and, as I seldom go out, the music on practice days and Sundays is one of my greatest pleasures. I want to know if you can have Carol, brothers, carol, on Christmas night, and if the boy who sings My ain countree so beautifully may please sing that too. I think it is the loveliest thing in the world, but it always makes me cry doesn t it you If it isn t too much trouble, I hope they can sing them both quite early, as after ten o clock I may be asleep. Yours respectfully, Carol Bird. P.S. The reason I like Carol, brothers, carol, is because the choir boys sang it eleven years ago, the morn Pg 29 ing I was born, and put it into Mamma fc barcelona t shirts 2012 s head to call me Carol. She didn t remember then that my other name would be Bird, because she was half asleep, and could only think of one thing at a time. Donald says if I had been born on the Fourth of July they would have named me Independence, or if on the twenty second of February, Georgina, or even Cherry, like Cherry in Martin Chuzzlewit but I like my own name and birthday best. Yours truly, Carol Bird. 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Well, if Lowell, Massachusetts, could see me, or if you could see me, in my new lavender muslin with the violet sash, it would die of envy, and so would you If I had been going to be envious of you, Rebecca, I should have died years cheap mens football shirts ago. Come, let s go out on the steps where it s shady and cool. And where we can see the Perkins front gate and the road running both ways, teased Rebecca, and then, softening her tone, she said How is it getting on, Emmy Tell me what s happened since I ve been in Brunswick. Nothing much, confessed Emma Jane. He writes to me, but I don t write to him, you know. I don t dare to, till he comes to the house. Are his letters still in Latin asked Rebecca, with a twinkling eye. Oh, no Not now, because well, because there are things you can t seem to write in Latin. I saw him at the Masonic picnic in the grove, but he won t say anything REAL to me till he gets more pay and dares to speak to mother and father. He IS brave in all other ways, but I ain t sure he ll ever have the courage for that, he s so afraid of them and always has been. Just remember what s in his mind all the time, Rebecca, that my folks know all about what his mother was, and how he was born on the poor farm. Not that I care look how he s educated and worked himself up I think he s perfectly elegant, and I shouldn t mind if he had been born in the bulrushes, like Moses. Emma Jane s every day vocabulary was pretty much what it had been before she went to the expensive Wareham Female Seminary. She had acquired a certain amount of information concerning the art of speech, but in moments of strong feeling she lapsed into the vernacular. She grew slowly in all directions, did Emma Jane, and, to use Rebecca s favorite nautilus figure, she had left co.s very cruel. As I look back I see that Miss Ross, the artist who brought me my pink parasol from Paris, sowed the first seeds in me of ambition to do something special. Her life seemed so beautiful and so easy to a child. I had not been to school then, or read George Macdonald, so I did not know that Ease is the lovely result of forgotten toil. Miss Ross sat out of doors and painted lovely things, and everybody said how wonderful they were, and bought them straight away and she took care of a blind father and two brothers, and traveled wherever she wished. It comes back to me now, that summer when I was ten and Miss Ross painted me sitting by the mill wheel while she talked to me of foreign countries The other day Miss Maxwell read something from Browning s poems to the girls of her literature class. It was about David the shepherd boy who used to lie in his hollow watching one eagle wheeling slow as in sleep. He used to wonder about the wide world that the eagle beheld, the eagle that was stretching his wings so far up in the blue, while he, the poor shepherd boy, could see only the strip twixt the hill and the sky for he lay in a hollow. I told Mr. Baxter about it the next day, which was the Saturday before I joined the church. I asked him if it was wicked to long to see as much as the eagle saw There was never anybody quite like Mr. Baxter. Rebecca dear, he said, it may be that you need not always lie in a hollow, as the shepherd boy did but wherever you lie, that little strip you see twixt the hill and the sky is able to hold all of earth and all of heaven, if only you have the right sort of vision. I was a long, long time about experiencing religion. I remember Sunday afternoons at the brick house the first winter after I went there when I used to sit in the middle of the dining room as I was bid, silent and still, with the big family Bible on my knees. Aunt Miranda had Baxter s Saints Rest, but her seat was by the window, and she at least could give a glance into the street now and then without being positively wicked. Aunt Jane used to read the Pilgrim s Progress. The fire burned low the tall clock ticked, ticked, so slowly and steadily, that the pictures swam before my eyes and I almost fell asleep. They thought by shutting everything else out that I should see God but I didn t, not once. cheap mens football shirts I was so homesick for Sunnybook and John that I could hardly learn my weekly hymns, especially the sad, long one beginning My thoughts on awful subjects roll, Damnation and the dead. It was brother John f.did not especially mind, but the wages thereof were decidedly unpleasant and irksome to him. He also minded very arsenal football shirts cheap much the isolated position in the community which had lately become his for he was a social being and would ALMOST rather not steal from a neighbor than have him find it out and cease intercourse This feeling was working in him and rendering him unaccountably irritable and depressed when he took his daughter over to Riverboro at the time of the great flag raising. There are seasons of refreshment, cheap mens football shirts as well as seasons of drought, in the spiritual, as in the natural world, and in some way or other dews and rains of grace fell upon Abner Simpson s heart during that brief journey. Perhaps the giving away of a child that he could not support had made the soil of his heart a little softer and readier for planting than usual but when he stole the new flag off Mrs. Peter Meserve s doorsteps, under the impression that the cotton covered bundle contained freshly washed clothes, he unconsciously set certain forces in operation. It will be remembered that Rebecca saw an inch of red bunting peeping from the back of his wagon, and asked the pleasure of a drive with him. She was no daughter of the regiment, but she proposed to follow the flag. When she diplomatically requested the return of the sacred object which was to be the glory of the raising next day, and he thus discovered his mistake, he was furious with himself for having slipped into a disagreeable predicament and later, when he unexpectedly faced a detachment of Riverboro society at the cross roads, and met not only their wrath and scorn, but the reproachful, disappointed glance of Rebecca s eyes, he felt degraded as never before. The night at the Centre tavern did not help matters, nor the jolly patriotic meeting of the three villages at the flag raising next morning. He would have enjoyed being at the head and front of the festive preparations, but as he had cut himself off cheap mens football shirts from all such friendly gatherings, he intended at any rate to sit in his wagon on the very outskirts of the assembled crowd and see some of the gayety for, heaven knows, he had little enough, he who loved talk, and song, and story, and laughter, and excitement. The flag was raised, the crowd cheered, the little girl to whom he had lied, the girl who was impersonating the State of Maine, was on the platform speaking her piece, and he could just distinguish some of the words she was saying For it s your star, my star, all the stars together, That makes our country s flag.

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