SOMEBODY'S LITTLE GIRL
by Martha Young






Dedication

To
Two Little Elizabeths:
Elizabeth Young
and
Elizabeth Magruder





SOMEBODY'S LITTLE GIRL



If I were just to tell the things that Bessie Bell remembered I
should tell you some very strange things. Bessie Bell did not know
whether she remembered them, or just knew them, or whether they just
grew, those strange things in some strange country that never was
wnywhere in the world; for when Bessie Bell tried to tell about
those strange things great grown wise people said: ``No, no, Bessie