Not Quite Eighteen

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Coolidge Susan. Not Quite Eighteen

HOW BUNNY BROUGHT GOOD LUCK

A BIT OF WILFULNESS

THE WOLVES OF ST. GERVAS

THREE LITTLE CANDLES

UNCLE AND AUNT

THE CORN-BALL MONEY, AND WHAT BECAME OF IT

THE PRIZE GIRL OF THE HARNESSING CLASS

DOLLY PHONE

A NURSERY TYRANT

WHAT THE PINK FLAMINGO DID

TWO PAIRS OF EYES

THE PONY THAT KEPT THE STORE

PINK AND SCARLET

DOLLY'S LESSON

A BLESSING IN DISGUISE

A GRANTED WISH

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THERE was a great excitement in the Keene's pleasant home at Wrentham, one morning, about three years ago. The servants were hard at work, making everything neat and orderly. The children buzzed about like active flies, for in the evening some one was coming whom none of them had as yet seen, – a new mamma, whom their father had just married.

The three older children remembered their own mamma pretty well; to the babies, she was only a name. Janet, the eldest, recollected her best of all, and the idea of somebody coming to take her place did not please her at all. This was not from a sense of jealousy for the mother who was gone, but rather from a jealousy for herself; for since Mrs. Keene's death, three years before, Janet had done pretty much as she liked, and the idea of control and interference aroused within her, in advance, the spirit of resistance.

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No one was on the piazza, and Janet ran up-stairs to Ellen's room, expecting to find her studying her lessons.

No; Ellen was in the bed, fast asleep. Janet took a story-book, and sat down beside her. "She'll be surprised when she wakes up," she thought.

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