We Girls

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A. D. T. Whitney. We Girls

We Girls

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WE GIRLS: A HOME STORY

CHAPTER I

THE STORY BEGINS

CHAPTER II

AMPHIBIOUS

CHAPTER III

BETWIXT AND BETWEEN

CHAPTER IV

NEXT THINGS

CHAPTER V

THE "BACK YETT AJEE."

CHAPTER VI

CO-OPERATING

CHAPTER VII

SPRINKLES AND GUSTS

CHAPTER VIII

HALLOWEEN

CHAPTER IX

WINTER NIGHTS AND WINTER DAYS

CHAPTER X

RUTH'S RESPONSIBILITY

CHAPTER XI

BARBARA'S BUZZ

CHAPTER XII

EMERGENCIES

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A. D. T. Whitney

A Home Story

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The next one was not only somewhere, but everywhere, it seemed, and nowhere. "Everything by turns and nothing long," Barbara wrote up over the kitchen chimney with the baker's chalk. We had five girls between that time and our moving to Westover, and we had to move without a girl at last; only getting a woman in to do days' work. But I have not come to the family-moving yet.

The house-moving was the pretty part. Every pleasant afternoon, while the building was upon the rollers, we walked over, and went up into all the rooms, and looked out of every window, noting what new pictures they gave as the position changed from day to day; how now this tree and now that shaded them: how we gradually came to see by the end of the Haddens' barn, and at last across it—for the slope, though gradual, was long—and how the sunset came in more and more, as we squared toward the west; and there was always a thrill of excitement when we felt under us, as we did again and again, the onward momentary surge of the timbers, as the workmen brought all rightly to bear, and the great team of oxen started up. Stephen called these earthquakes.

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