Jessie's Parrot

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Mathews Joanna Hooe. Jessie's Parrot

I. THE NEW SCHOLAR

II. AN EXCURSION

III. JESSIE AND HER GRANDFATHER

IV. THE PARROT

V. GRANDMAMMA HOWARD

VI. JEALOUSY

VII. A MISFORTUNE

VIII "THE SPIDER AND THE FLY."

IX. A GUILTY CONSCIENCE

X. A GAME OF CHARACTERS

XI. CONFESSION

XII. THE FAIR

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"A LARGE omnibus stood before the door of Miss Ashton's house, and had been waiting there some minutes. This was on a street where a line of omnibuses ran, and every now and then some would-be passenger made for the door of this one, when the driver would turn and say something which plainly disappointed him of his ride, at least in this particular stage.

If such an individual chanced to glance up at the windows of Miss Ashton's house, he saw there a row of little faces in each of the parlor windows; and these same faces brimming over with smiles and dimples at the sight of his discomfiture, and the consciousness that this omnibus had been chartered for their especial pleasure and convenience, and that no mere passer-by had any right or title therein.

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Mabel Walton, who considered it almost impossible to enjoy oneself without a quantity of candies and sugar-plums on hand, had been furnished by her over-indulgent mother with a large supply of these delicacies; nor were most of the others without their share; so that Miss Ashton looked with some dismay upon the treasures which were displayed by one and another, fearing that her little flock might surfeit themselves with too many sweets before the day was over.

However, her mind was soon relieved, at least in a measure. For Mabel having doled out a handful of sugar-plums to each of her companions, Bessie Bradford called out as the carriage rolled slowly up a hilly part of the road, —

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