Spinning-Wheel Stories

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Alcott Louisa May. Spinning-Wheel Stories

Grandma's Story

Tabby's Table Cloth

Eli's Education

Onawandah

Little Things

The Banner of Beaumanior

Jerseys or the Girl's Ghost

The Little House In The Garden

Daisy's Jewel-Box, and How She Filled It

Corny's Catamount

The Cooking Class

The Hare and the Tortoise

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The storm kept on all night, and next morning the drifts were higher, the wind stronger, and the snow falling faster than ever. Through the day the children roved about the great house, amusing themselves as best they could; and, when evening came, they gathered around the fire again, eager for the promised story from grandmamma.

"I've a little cold," said the old lady, "and am too hoarse for talking, my dears; but Aunt Elinor has looked up a parcel of old tales that I've told her at different times and which she has written down. You will like to hear her reading better than my dull way of telling them, and I can help Minnie and Lotty with their work, for I see they are bent on learning to spin."

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By the time she reached the Deacon's, however, and told her tale, the Tories were well on their way, Mr. Bliss having provided them with horses that his own flight might be the speedier.

So they escaped; but the warning was given, and Tabby received great praise for her hour under the table. The town's-people hastened their preparations, and had time to remove the most valuable stores to neighboring towns; to mount their cannon and drill their minute-men; for these resolute farmers meant to resist oppression, and the world knows how well they did it when the hour came.

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