Emily of New Moon

y the Murrays at breakfast, Was called

he whole phalanx of th

at Uncle Wallace,

d not just found the

culiar quality

unsmilingly by the ta

er h

ast night we could not

none of us feel very

d very badly in

otested Laura. "She

il

ifted a han

ura. Have the goodnes

y, we could not decid

we have agreed to Cou

tter by lot. I have

r. You will draw one

ill give y

out the slips of pap

t she could not draw o

e must blindly set

aid Aunt E

threw back her head w

nd drew. Aunt Elizab

nd and held it up. O

aura Murray suddenly p

ey

" said Uncle Wallace,

I'm going to catch t

the matter of expense goes,

at New Moon, " said

s fallen to me to tak

, Wallace. I do

ought Emily. "Father

Elizabeth will

he Murray pride than

beth, " laughed

out--all except Aunt

in the middle of the r

ar

ered. "Don't fret, Dear child. I love you a

, " said Emily, strugg

could go with you, Au

s not because I'm sor

as you may think, Aun

t night if I'd kn

wouldn't, " s

t a Murray,

said a queer thi

for that!" sai

d Emily out and over

lly around to ensure

reat hand at making an

rnover sounded nice, t

spered back a questio

unt Elizabeth or

ey make a cake at New

ixing-bowl and e

h won't, " whispered

e oven when they get c

I go

, " said Cousin Jimmy.

ew people I do that

y're not written dow

y tapped hi

rite poetry?" asked E

at Cousi

a log if you can find

in J

at morning except the

at they would stay unt

ke Emily

e belongs to the hous

get ready. There ar

ew personal bel

y my cats?" asked

izabeth

'll take no

and Saucy Sal!" cried

d. I can't live

barn cats at New Moo

in the

cats?" asked Emi

I do

FEEL of a nice, soft

il

as soon tou

wax doll of your mot

"I'll dress i

--they can't talk,

er can

e and Saucy Sal can.

abeth. I LOVE those

in the world that

r less on two hundre

orked beard. "Take

ered for a moment. S

nt a cat. Aunt Eliza

nderstand anything un

ammered into their h

th their brains and n

our cats, " she said a

t concession. "One--a

ll learn first as las

ean it. That's

omething he had tried

and whistled a

on't--Murray-like. We

y, and you'll have to

l of it yourself, you

The Starr is only s

e, " cried Emily. "And, oh, How can

blem. Emily wrestled

liked Mike best--ther

Saucy Sal to Ellen's

but she rather liked

was going back to he

t last in the evening, Emily made her bi

" said Cousin Jimmy.

you know

lizabeth sternly. E

't kittens to be spok

ed "the Tom." It soun

he bustle and commoti

iet and the sweet, re

if he had been thrust

lux of M

unt Elizabeth suddenl

ly looked up and saw

hands the old accou

was READING in it. E

snatched

beth, " she cried indignantly, "th

abeth, staring at her, "let me tell you th

w. I am not going to

nd that. You have ev

to have seen and I me

t b

t, " cried Emily, bac

reast. "But I won't l

t

zabeth f

ear what I say? Give

rned and ran. She

ook. She fled to th

she crammed the book

merrily. Emily wat

f herself were burn

r see it--see all the

ther--all her fancies

ss--all her little c

in it last night abo

rivel and shudder, as

n black. A line of

Elizabeth is very col

en THAT? What if she

sively over her should

room and shut the doo

ve been called a bang.

e film on the glowing

ed. She felt as if

. It was terrible to

She could never writ

ould she wouldn't dare

in, if Aunt Elizabeth

on seeing them. She

t wanted to do it he

with tears glistening

imaginary a

cold and hawty; a

usin Jimmy was tying t

gy, and Aunt Elizabet

Emily said good-bye

-and-Eve--"they'll mi

here to love them, "

he kitchen window--to

ass--to the silver bi

window of her own o

ed to Emily to open on

ok there had been one

deskripshun of the vew

med; at night she used

Sometimes the sta

t against it--sometime

t--sometimes airy frag

som--sometimes the W

istled round it--Emily

wild, white winter st

oman, for she knew the

e said good-bye to th

ved, and to her fairy

lass. There might be

ut she wouldn't be t

and stowed away in he

d cut from a fashion

white lace and wreath

ace flounces that mus

ured herself a thousa

ueen of beauty, acro

aiting for her. Emily

rently--she had never

he night Ellen had to

he had hated a

bursting into tears an

-asking her to write t

ed ch

d child, " said Emily

l you be very

orse over leaving tha

e, " snif

" said Emily, amazed t

on abo

ution not to cry when

up on the sun-warm gr

gain sometime, " she

GOOD pussy cat

n the double-seated

ted by the Murrays o

ing so splendid befor

twice her father had

ey pony and driven t

and the pony slow, bu

y and made the

t Elizabeth sat in f

e bonnet and mantle.

h Saucy Sal between them in a

they drove up the gr

wn house in the holl

run back and comfor

came into her eyes; bu

ket and caught Emily's in a

you, Aunt Laura,

s were very, very bl