Excerpt: ... mentioned his plans to a group of close friends at recess he found them most responsive. "There's nothing much to do 'round now," said Palmer Davis. "I'm dead tired coasting every day. I'd like to help Mrs. Jordan." Mrs. Jordan was an old woman who lived in a tumbled-down house. She had a crippled son, and had supported herself, since the death of her husband, by going out to work by the day. As she had always worked faithfully and never complained, Oak Hill people really did not know that this winter she had ...
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Excerpt: ... mentioned his plans to a group of close friends at recess he found them most responsive. "There's nothing much to do 'round now," said Palmer Davis. "I'm dead tired coasting every day. I'd like to help Mrs. Jordan." Mrs. Jordan was an old woman who lived in a tumbled-down house. She had a crippled son, and had supported herself, since the death of her husband, by going out to work by the day. As she had always worked faithfully and never complained, Oak Hill people really did not know that this winter she had had a hard time to get enough to eat and coal enough to burn. Her son was unable to earn anything, and Miss Mason, for whom Mrs. Jordan washed, had thought that it would be a kindness to put him in a home where he would be well taken care of at no expense to his mother. "I'll not hear of it!" declared Mrs. Jordan angrily, when the teacher mentioned this plan to her. "He's going to live at home with me as long as I have a roof to cover us." Miss Mason, who, like many kind-hearted people, did not like her well meant offers to be refused, had told Mrs. Jordan plainly that she was ungrateful, and that she need not bother to come for the wash any more. So the poor old woman, who counted on this dollar and a half weekly, was deprived of that money. In Oak Hill so many housewives did their own work that there was not a great deal of extra work to be had. Two or three of the boys backed out when Bobby explained that they must ask people for the things to be sold at their fair. But enough promised to go with him after school that afternoon to make it worth while to go on with the planning. "Aunt Polly and Mother and Norah have promised to fix the 'freshment table," explained Bobby. "We're going to sell ice-cream and lemonade and cake. And Meg and Dot and the girls are going to get the things for the fancy work table. So we only have to get enough for one table." "What kind of table?" asked Bertrand Ashe practically. "All kinds I guess," returned...
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8"; NOT an ex library book. Name on front endpaper. Interior pages clean. Pages darkening. Dust jacket illustration wraps around on to the spine. Dust jacket has 1" closed tear top front at the spine, no chips. This book is third of three titles listed on front endflap.
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b/w Illustration. Good. No Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. In red cloth, 8vo, 182pp. (Minor light shelfwear, toning to edges, bookplate to endpaper).
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