My Young Days

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Unknown. My Young Days

I. HOME SICKNESS

II. UNCLE HUGH'S STORY

III. THE LITTLE STOWAWAY

IV. MY HOME, AND WHAT IT WAS LIKE

V. LITTLE COUSINS

VI. WHAT ABOUT LESSONS?

VII. HURRAH FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

VIII. THE COTTAGE ON THE CLIFF

IX. SUSETTE AND HER TROUBLES

X. AUTUMN DAYS

XI. GOOD-BYE TO BEECHAM

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THE MITTENS.

How many times in my life, I wonder, have these words come rushing up from the very bottom of my heart, tumbling everything out of the way, never listening to reason, never stopping for thought? How many times since that dreary afternoon in the great, big drawing-room at grandmamma's? And, oh dear me! what miserable heartache comes before that fearful want! Oh, grown-up people, don't you know how sour everything tastes, and how yellow everything looks, and how sick everything makes one, when one wants to go home?

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There he stood, his eyes and mouth all one smile, and held out at arm's length by the ears a dead rabbit. My look and exclamation of horror made him grave at once.

"Oh, the poor little rabbit!" I cried. "Has Uncle Hugh killed him quite dead?"

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