Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
|IT stood with its thills upon the low stone wall that separated the barn-yard from the house-yard. There were wedges behind the wheels to keep the cart from rolling back, for it was little Sally Reed’s baby-house just now. She had brought an armful of hay from the barn and sp...
|THE Reed family were at breakfast. Lucy had peeled some potatoes, and baked them brown in the oven, and they were very delicious, the children thought,--so much better than wit...
15. CHAPTER XIV. MORE GARDEN TALKS|GILL was pulling turnips, and the little girl ran away from every thing else to see the roots come out of the ground. How large and white they were,--tinged here and there with...
5. CHAPTER IV. GILL’S GARDEN TALKS|WHEN the beans were all picked, Gill pulled some radishes and tied them in bunches. There were the spindle-shaped, and the turnip or top-shaped, white, red, and violet outside;...
10. CHAPTER IX. GARDEN RICHES.The child smacked her lips over the delicious fruit. “‘Tis better than an apple when one is thirsty,” she said. “The leaf looks like the potato-leaf, does it not, Gill?”
13. CHAPTER XII. THE CHILDREN’S GUESTS|MR. and Mrs. Reed came out to see what Gill and the children were about. Mr. Reed was at home for the day, which was not a very frequent event, and it was quite a treat to him...
9. CHAPTER VIII. HOME LOVE|YOU need not suppose that Mr. and Mrs. Reed lost sight of their children altogether, because I am telling you so much about their hours with Gill. Oh, no! It would be a singula...
1. CHAPTER I. GILL.|IT stood with its thills upon the low stone wall that separated the barn-yard from the house-yard. There were wedges behind the wheels to keep the cart from rolling back, for i...
6. CHAPTER V. MRS. BETH AND HER CAT|MRS. BETH was drinking coffee from a tin kettle, as Gill drove up to a side door in the market. She sat in her stall with her bonnet on her head, and her spectacles upon her no...
2. CHAPTER II. DAISIES AND THISTLES.|I’M going into the meadow now for a while,” said Gill. “Would you like to go with me? I have a good deal to do there to get up the useless roots.”
7. CHAPTER VI. BABY JACK|THE summer advanced, the weeks came and went, came and went so swiftly. Ben and Sally and Gill had a constant succession of business, for Mrs. Beth plied them diligently. She m...
12. CHAPTER XI. GILL’S ROSES AND CANDLES.|FASTER than even the wheels of the old market-cart could go round, the summer went by with its rich treasures of vegetables and fruit; and now the autumn had come, and Gill and...
8. CHAPTER VII. STRAWBERRIES.|WHILE the turkeys were having their night’s rest outside the farmhouse, and big people and little dreamed sweetly within, the strawberries lay in their broad bed, with their ro...
14. CHAPTER XIII. LITTLE SALLY’S SICKNESSBen and Sally stood watching and waiting, and Gill sat with Jack upon his knee. He was pretending not to notice; but, by and by, Lucy got tired, and before Gill could know what...
11. CHAPTER X. MRS. BETH S HOME.|MRS. BETH and Tib sat by the broken lantern, wondering what had become of Gill. The old woman had a gray gown on, and a blue checked apron; and Tib was in black silk, as usual,...
4. mill. When they are young and green, it takes very little time to cookthem, not more than fifteen or twenty minutes, and you season them for the table with butter and salt and pepper, and a pinch of white sugar, and I don’t want a better vegetable...
3. CHAPTER III. THE PEASE FAMILY.|THE children had each a tin pail, which they filled with peas, and emptied into Gill’s large basket. How busy and happy they were in the early morning, amid the vines! The fres...