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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>satisfying than any praise of the world, for now she told nostories except to her flock of enthusiastic believers andadmirers. As the years went on, two little lads of her owncame to increase her happiness—Rob, named forGrandpa, and Teddy, a happy-go-lucky baby, who seemedto have inherited his papa’s sunshiny temper as well as hismother’s lively spirit. How they ever grew up alive in thatwhirlpool of boys was a mystery to their grandma andaunts, but they flourished like dandelions in spring, andtheir rough nurses loved and served them well.There were a great many holidays at Plumfield, andone of the most delightful was the yearly apple-picking.For then the Marches, Laurences, Brookes. And Bhaersturned out in full force and made a day of it. Five yearsafter Jo’s wedding, one of these fruitful festivals occurred,a mellow October day, when the air was full of anexhilarating freshness which made the spirits rise and theblood dance healthily in the veins. The old orchard woreits holiday attire. Goldenrod and asters fringed the mossywalls. Grasshoppers skipped briskly in the sere grass, andcrickets chirped like fairy pipers at a feast. Squirrels werebusy with their small harvesting. Birds twittered theiradieux from the alders in the lane, and every tree stoodready to send down its shower of red or yellow apples at853 of 861

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