The Very Small Person

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Donnell Annie Hamilton. The Very Small Person

Chapter I. Little Blue Overalls

Chapter II. The Boy

Chapter III. The Adopted

Chapter IV. Bobby Unwelcome

Chapter V. The Little Girl Who Should Have Been a Boy

Chapter VI. The Lie

Chapter VII. The Princess of Make-Believe

Chapter VIII. The Promise

Chapter IX. The Little Lover

Chapter X. The Child

Chapter XI. The Recompense

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The trail of the Boy was always entirely distinct, but on this especial morning it lay over house, porch, barn – everything. The Mother followed it up, stooping to gather the miscellany of boyish belongings into her apron. She had a delightful scheme in her mind for clearing everything up. She wanted to see how it would seem, for once, not to have any litter of whittlings, of strings and marbles and tops! No litter of beloved birds’ eggs, snake-skins, turtle-shells! No trail of the Boy anywhere.

It had taken the whole family to get the Boy off, but now he was gone. Even yet the haze of dust the stage-coach had stirred up from the dry roadway lingered like a faint blur on the landscape. It could not be ten minutes since they had bidden the Boy his first good-bye. The Mother smiled softly.

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“Not at all; —bad,” he answered, gloomily. “I haven’t written a word yet, Bess. At this rate, how soon will my new book be out? It’s so confoundedly still – ”

“Yes, dear, I know,” the Mother said, hastily. Then they both gazed out of the window, and saw the Boy’s little, rough-coated, ugly dog moping under the Boy’s best-beloved tree. The Boy had pleaded hard to be allowed to take the dog on the journey. They both remembered that now.

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