JOHNNY GRUELLE.

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INTRODUCTION


Marcella liked to play up in the attic at Grandma's quaint old house,
'way out in the country, for there were so many old forgotten things to
find up there.

One day when Marcella was up in the attic and had played with the old
spinning wheel until she had grown tired of it, she curled up on an old
horse-hair sofa to rest.

"I wonder what is in that barrel, 'way back in the corner?" she thought,
as she jumped from the sofa and climbed over two dusty trunks to the
barrel standing back under the eaves.

It was quite dark back there, so when Marcella had pulled a large bundle
of things from the barrel she took them over to the dormer window where
she could see better. There was a funny little bonnet with long white
ribbons. Marcella put it on.