THE OLD MARKET-CART.
BY Mrs. F. B. SMITH,
Boston:
G. T. Day Co.
1870
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THE OLD MARKET-CART.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER II. DAISIES AND THISTLES.
CHAPTER III. THE PEASE FAMILY.
CHAPTER IV. GILL’S GARDEN TALKS
CHAPTER V. MRS. BETH AND HER CAT
CHAPTER XI. GILL’S ROSES AND CANDLES.
CHAPTER XII. THE CHILDREN’S GUESTS
CHAPTER XIII. LITTLE SALLY’S SICKNESS
CHAPTER XIV. MORE GARDEN TALKS
CHAPTER XV. MRS. BETH’S REQUEST
CHAPTER I. GILL.
IT stood with its thills upon the low stone wall that separated the barn-yard from the house-yard. There were wedges behind the wheels to keep the cart from rolling back, for it was little Sally Reed’s baby-house just now. She had brought an armful of hay from the barn and spread it upon the floor of her little oblong room, and had put the three-legged milking-stool in one corner, and there she sat nursing her great rag-baby. She felt very grand indeed, up there,—the mistress of a house in the air, and the mother of so precious a child as her black-eyed, black-haired Jessie. How she loved that little