Identifier: littlemaidofmass00curt (find matches)
Title: A little maid of Massachusetts colony ..
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Curtis, Alice Turner
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Publisher: Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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he had acted selfishly ;still, she could not feel that wanting to keep Martha Stoddard was wrong. There! You are quite rid of ink now/ saidRose, and there is an hour before dinner. Doyou want to write some more in your book ? No, said Anne. It seemed to her that sheshould never want to write in the book again.She wished that she and Martha Stoddard were safe back with Aunt Martha in ProvinceTown. Well, I have some errands to do for mother,so Ill run along, said Rose pleasantly, and leftAnne alone in the little square room called the sink-room, because of two sinks near the onewindow which overlooked the green yard at theback of the house. There was a door openinginto the yard, and Anne looked out feeling moreunhappy than she had since the night whenAunt Martha had sent her up-stairs. Frederick was in the yard. He was settingwhat looked to Anne like wooden bottles in astraight row at the further end of the square ofgreensward. Then he ran across to the opendoor where Anne was standing.
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HE HANDED HER A BALL OF MASSACHUSETTS COLONT 177 Want to play bowls? he asked. 111 dont know how/ replied Anne. Ill show you ; its easy, replied the boy,picking up a big wooden ball and balancing iton one hand. Come on out and try, heurged, and Anne stepped out into the yard. Watch me ! said Frederick. He stepped back a little, sent a keen glancetoward the wooden bottles, as if measuringthe distance, then holding the ball in one handand leaning a little sideways, swung it back andforth for a few times and then sent it rollingacross the grass. It struck one of the bottles/and that in falling sent over two more. Oh, I can do that! exclaimed Anne. All right, try. Ill set up the pins for you,said Frederick. Anne thought to herself that it was funny tocall those wooden objects pins. Youd better take a smaller ball, said Fred-erick, selecting one from a number lying nearthe door ; and he handed her a ball that Annethought was about the size of a pint dipper. Frederick told her how to hold i

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