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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>eBook brought to you byCreate, view, and edit PDF. Download the free trial version.CHAPTER TWENTY-SIXIt takes people a long time to learn the differencebetween talent and genius, especially ambitious youngmen and women. Amy was learning this distinctionthrough much tribulation, for mistaking enthusiasm forinspiration, she attempted every branch of art withyouthful audacity. For a long time there was a lull in the‘mud-pie’ business, and she devoted herself to the finestpen-and-ink drawing, in which she showed such taste andskill that her graceful handiwork proved both pleasant andprofitable. But over-strained eyes caused pen and ink to belaid aside for a bold attempt at poker sketching.While this attack lasted, the family lived in constant fearof a conflagration, for the odor of burning wood pervadedthe house at all hours, smoke issued from attic and shedwith alarming frequency, red-hot pokers lay aboutpromiscuously, and Hannah never went to bed without apail of water and the dinner bell at her door in case of fire.Raphael’s face was found boldly executed on theunderside of the moulding board, and Bacchus on thehead of a beer barrel. A chanting cherub adorned the447 of 861

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