Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
Abbey
"TAKE the green pail to carry the water up-stairs, and set the smaller one on the stove, with water in it, that I may have it hot presently," said Mrs. Ward. "Do you understand me?"
Chapters
1. CHAPTER I.
"TAKE the green pail to carry the water up-stairs, and set the smaller one on the stove, with water in it, that I may have it hot presently," said Mrs. Ward. "Do you understand...
2. CHAPTER II.ABBEY took her work and went down into the kitchen, where Mrs. Ward was mixing her bread. She was not in the least ruffled by the events of the morning, and thought it very stra...
3. CHAPTER III."I am working 'on my own hook,' as father says. Mrs. Frost has given me all this long border for my own garden, and I am to have all I can raise from it. I have bought fifty cen...
4. CHAPTER IV.FOR three or four weeks, moved by Elvira's energetic remonstrances, and stimulated also by the necessity of earning the means of paying for a new frock and hat, Abbey did a good...
5. CHAPTER V.ABBEY soon found she had fallen into very different hands from Mrs. Ward's or her mother's. Mrs. Powell was not only skilful at all sorts of work herself, but she possessed the...
6. CHAPTER VI."WELL, Abbey, better late than never," was Mrs. Powell's greeting. "What kept you so long? And where are your strawberries? Didn't Mrs. Ward have them ready? Now, I do hope you...