The Weaver's Children; A True Story of Pioneering Times (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... The Embroidery Teacher Several very satisfactory weeks followed this first day at school, when life was made much more exciting by the entrance of a new, large girl. Her name was Maria Henshaw. She became at once the autocrat of the recesses. She made higher teeters than any one else had dared to make, she climbed higher trees, and she ventured fartherdown Horace Greeley's Sister the street at recess, taking her chances of hearing the rap. She behaved well in school hours, caring little for leadership in the tame pursuit of knowledge. One day soon after Maria Henshaw's en trance into the school, a visitor came with Miss Button and stayed all day. "Can she be going to take Miss Button's place?" whispered Julia to Maria Henshaw. "No, she can't start things," said Maria after a critical overlooking of the drooping figure in the green delaine. "I'll tell you all about her when I come back this noon." When Maria came back after dinner she nodded triumphantly to Julia as she took her seat; but, as she was late, and consequently kept in at recess, she could not report until after school. All the afternoon the visitor sat and looked out of the window, now and then languidly throwing back the light curls that lay on her bare neck. Once she left the room, smiling shyly, and was introduced to some visitors. After school was dismissed, the girls waited about until the little green-clad figure disappeared with Miss Button around the corner, and then Maria with a shout called the girls around her on the sidewalk. "She is Horace Greeley's sister. Don't you know Horace Greeley, Lucy Jennings, and you a Whig He edits a paper in New York--The Cabin--the Log Cabin " "She is going to teach us embroidery--teach me embroidery " The Henshaw girl laughed long and...