Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

Little Womenconvulsed his hearers and his contributions were excellent,being patriotic, classical, comical, or dramatic, but neversentimental. Jo regarded them as worthy of Bacon, Milton,or Shakespeare, and remodeled her own works with goodeffect, she thought.The P. O. was a capital little institution, and flourishedwonderfully, for nearly as many queer things passedthrough it as through the real post office. Tragedies andcravats, poetry and pickles, garden seeds and long letters,music and gingerbread, rubbers, invitations, scoldings, andpuppies. The old gentleman liked the fun, and amusedhimself by sending odd bundles, mysterious messages, andfunny telegrams, and his gardener, who was smitten withHannah’s charms, actually sent a love letter to Jo’s care.How they laughed when the secret came out, neverdreaming how many love letters that little post officewould hold in the years to come.191 of 861