Pollyanna

her niece to the four or five principal dry goods st

of a volcano. The various clerks who had waited upon the pair came out of it with very red faces, and enough amusing stories of Pollyanna to keep their friends in gales of laughter the rest of the week. Pollyanna herself came out of it with radiant smiles and a heart content; for

lightful talk with Old Tom in the garden, and another with Nancy on the back por

out the little farm six miles away at "The Corners," where lived her own dear mother, and her equally dear brothe

EIR names," sighed Nancy. "They're 'Algernon,' and

t a dreadful th

was the first baby, and mother hadn't begun ter rea

just because it's you

e' just as well," retorted Nancy, "and it would be a

nna la

ckled, "you can be glad

hzib

like it. She says when he calls out 'Hep-Hep!' she feels just as if the next

face relaxed in

'Hep-Hep!' and giggle. My, I guess I AM glad-" She stopped short and turned amazed eyes on the little girl. "Say

owned; then

You see, you DO, lots of times; you get so used to it-looking for something to be glad about, you know. And most ge

granted Nancy,

like an oven. With longing eyes Pollyanna looked at the two fast-closed windows-but she did not raise t

ttle cot, she did not know; but it seemed to her that it must have been hours befo

he floor from the east dormer window. With a resolute ignoring of that fearsome darkness to the right and t

Outside, however, there was a wide world of fairy-like beauty, and there was,

little way below the window, the wide, flat tin roof of Miss Polly's sun parlor built ov

between her and them lay a horrid desert of blackness across which one must feel one's way with outstretched,

p out of doors. Joel Hartley at home, who was so s

ags, selected a nice fat soft one (it contained Miss Polly's sealskin coat) for a bed; and a thinner one to be doubled up for a pillow, and still another (which was so thin it seemed almost empty) for a covering. Thus equipped, Pollyanna in high glee pat

anna rather liked. She walked, indeed, two or three times back and forth from end to end-it gave her such a pleasant sensation of airy space after her hot little room; and the roof was so broad and flat that

come," she murmured, blinking up at the

was hurrying into dressing gown and slippers, her face white and frighten

e must have climbed up the rose-trellis or somewhere, and of course he can get right into the hou

trio of amazed ejaculations. She opened her eyes to find Timothy at the top of a ladder near

oes this mean?" cr

nked sleepy e

ot the consumption, you know, like Joel Hartley. It's only that I was so hot-in there

precipitation, handed his lantern to Miss Polly, and followed his son. Mi

extraordinary children!" she ejaculated a little later, as, with Pollyann

r that cool breath of the out of doors; but she did

stairs Miss Polly

bed with me. The screens will be here to-morrow, but until the

drew in

u! And when I've so wanted to sleep with some one sometime-some one that belonged to me, you know; not

rd time since Pollyanna's arrival, Miss Polly was punishing Pollyanna-and for the third time she was being confronted with the a