Pollyanna

ee Mrs. Snow, she found that lady

r," announced Milly, in a tired manner; then P

remember you. ANYbody'd remember you, I guess, if they saw you

on a chair. "My! but aren't you dark here, though? I can't see you a bit," she cried, unhesitatingly crossing to the window and pulling up the shade. "I want to see if you've fixe

stirred

ce in how it tastes," she scoffed-but she turned

had skipped back to the basket. Her f

s I know of," she sighed. "Aft

nna ch

f you DID want someth

ng what she did not have, that to state off-hand what she DID want seemed impossible-until she kn

urse, there'

it!" crowe

the sick woman, sure now of what her s

hat, too," chuc

turned in

them?" sh

ach-but there's some of all of 'em! I'm so glad you did want chicken," she went on contentedly, as she lifted the three little bowls from her basket. "You see, I got to thinkin

man seemed to be trying-mentall

e three bowls in a row on the table. "Like enough it'll be lamb broth y

t my nap this morning. Nellie Higgins next door has begun music lessons, and her practising drives

ded sympa

know. She had rheumatic fever, too, at the same time, so she couldn't thr

I-w

as to change your position when

w stared

e-anywhere-in bed," she r

hrash when you have rheumatic fever-though you want to something awful, Mrs. White says. She told me afterwar

ARS! What d

nna la

ey had such an awful time making her understand ANYTHING, that after that, every time the piano commenced to play across the street, Mrs. White felt so glad she COULD hear it, that she didn't mind so much th

e-g

clapped

I've thought it up, Mrs. Sno

t! What do

me to tell you something to be glad about-glad, you kn

remember that; but I didn't suppose y

S hard. It's all the more fun, though, always, when 'tis hard. And I will own up

at is it?" Mrs. Snow's voi

drew a l

like you-all sick in bed like this, you know," she annou

lated then, in not quite

r you to play-it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard! You see, it's like t

inished when Milly a

ssness. "She telephoned down to the Harlows' across the way. She says y

rose rel

she laughed. "I suppose I ought to be glad I'v

But Milly, whose eyes were wide open with surpris

he reached the door. "I'm awfully sorry about the

days, indeed. She often told her aunt, joyously, how very hap

hey are happy; but I trust that they are profitable, as

a proceeding that was still always most disconcerting to Mis

h then, Aunt Polly, that they should b

at I mean,

e pro-fi-ta-

tain

eing pro-f

g profit, something to show for it, Polly

pro-fi-ta-ble?" questioned P

ainly

of course. I'm afraid, now, you wo

What

ed her hand to her lips. "N-nothing

Pollyanna," she said tersely.

nna, coming down from her attic r

coming up to see me! Come right in. I love company," she finis

r unbounded surprise now, she found herself, not in the main attic before the cedar chest, but in Pollyanna's little room sitting in one of the straight-backed chairs-so m

"specially since I've had this room, all mine, you know. Oh, of course, I had a room, always, but 'twas a hir

lly, vaguely wondering why she did not ge

ns and pictures that I'd been want-" With a painful blush Pollyanna stopped short. She

that, Po

olly, truly. I did

ly, coldly; "but you did say it,

ind of planning on pretty carpets and lace c

!" interrupted Mi

shed still mo

pictures; the one fath-I mean the good one we sold, and the bad one that broke. Of course if it hadn't been for all that I shouldn't have wanted them, so-pretty things, I mean; and I shouldn't have got to planning all through the hall that first day how pretty mine would be here, and-and

enly to her feet. He

Pollyanna," s

and not until she reached the first floor did it suddenly occur to her that she had go

ours later, Miss Polly

irs this morning to the room directly beneath. I have

m," said N

said Nancy

minute later, sh

s Pollyanna. You're ter sleep down-stairs in

actually g

ncy, not really-r

to Pollyanna over the armful of dresses she had taken from the closet. "I'm told ter take d

tence. At the imminent risk of being dashed headlo

air before Pollyanna at last

got EVERYTHING-the carpet and curtains and three pictures, besides the

oper care of them; that's all. Pollyanna, please pick up that chair; and you have banged two doors in the last half-minute." Miss Polly spoke ste

picked up

found out about the room, and I reckon you'd have banged doors if-" Pollyanna stopp

a!" Miss Polly's voic

me!" Pollyanna's face expres

d Aunt Polly, too

you didn't, that must have meant that you weren't ever glad over anything-or you would have

ly the distant bang of the attic-stairway door answered for

vaguely disturbed;-but then, of cour