The Peterkin papers by Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody) Hale
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into their closet, and old Mr.
Bromwick bought this set just where we bought ours. And they had a coffee-set, too" "You mean where our father and mother bought them. We were not born," said Elizabeth Eliza. "It is all the same," said Solomon John. "They match exactly." So they did, and more and more came in. Elizabeth Eliza exclaimed: "And Agamemnon says we are not a family for emergencies!" "Ann Maria was very good about it," said Solomon John; "and quick, too. And old Mrs. Bromwick has kept all her set of two dozen coffee and tea cups!" Elizabeth Eliza was ready to faint with delight and relief. She told the Gibbons boys, by mistake, instead of Agamemnon, and the little boys. She almost let fall the cups and saucers she took in her hand. "No trouble now!" She thought of the cow, and she thought of the pig, and she poured on. No trouble, except about the chairs. She looked into the room; all seemed to be sitting down, even her mother. No, her father was |
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