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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>A distinguished personage happened to visit the schoolthat morning, and Amy’s beautifully drawn maps receivedpraise, which honor to her foe rankled in the soul of MissSnow, and caused Miss March to assume the airs of astudious young peacock. But, alas, alas! Pride goes before afall, and the revengeful Snow turned the tables withdisastrous success. No sooner had the guest paid the usualstale compliments and bowed himself out, than Jenny,under pretense of asking an important question, informedMr. Davis, the teacher, that Amy March had pickled limesin her desk.Now Mr. Davis had declared limes a contraband article,and solemnly vowed to publicly ferrule the first personwho was found breaking the law. This much-enduringman had succeeded in banishing chewing gum after a longand stormy war, had made a bonfire of the confiscatednovels and newspapers, had suppressed a private postoffice, had forbidden distortions of the face, nicknames,and caricatures, and done all that one man could do tokeep half a hundred rebellious girls in order. Boys aretrying enough to human patience, goodness knows, butgirls are infinitely more so, especially to nervousgentlemen with tyrannical tempers and no more talent forteaching than Dr. Blimber. Mr. Davis knew any quantity115 of 861

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