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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>provoking, but you kept your temper, and I’m so glad,Jo.’‘Don’t praise me, Meg, for I could box his ears thisminute. I should certainly have boiled over if I hadn’tstayed among the nettles till I got my rage under controlenough to hold my tongue.. It’s simmering now, so Ihope he’ll keep out of my way,’ returned Jo, biting herlips as she glowered at Fred from under her big hat.‘Time for lunch,’ said Mr. Brooke, looking at hiswatch. ‘Commissary general, will you make the fire andget water, while Miss March, Miss Sallie, and I spread thetable? Who can make good coffee?’‘Jo can,’ said Meg, glad to recommend her sister. So Jo,feeling that her late lessons in cookery were to do herhonor, went to preside over the coffeepot, while thechildren collected dry sticks, and the boys made a fire andgot water from a spring near by. Miss Kate sketched andFrank talked to Beth, who was making little mats ofbraided rushes to serve as plates.The commander in chief and his aides soon spread thetablecloth with an inviting array of eatables and drinkables,prettily decorated with green leaves. Jo announced that thecoffee was ready, and everyone settled themselves to ahearty meal, for youth is seldom dyspeptic, and exercise224 of 861

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