Books with author Mary Jane Haw

There, on a mossy bank, beneath a wide-spreading grape-vine, with the running brook at my feet, I felt the first longings for famethough I did not thus designate it then. I only knew that $wanted a name which should live when I was gone a name of which rny mother should be proud. It had been to me rday of peculiar trial. At school everything had gone wroii Accidentally I had discovered that I possessed a talent i c. rhfming; and so, because I preferred filling my slate with verses, instead of proving on it. th.at four times twenty were eighty, and that eighty, divided: by; twenty, equaled four, my teacher must needsfmf Lfault.with me, calling me lazy, and compellingiertovsii .between A twp -hateful boys, with warty hands, who for the remainder of the afternoon amused themselves by sitting inconveniently near to me, and by telling me how big my eyes and feet were. I hardly think I should now mind that mode of punishment, provided I could choose the boys, but I did then; and in the worst of humors, I started for home, where other annoyances awaited me. Sally, the house-maid, scolded me for upsetting a pan of milk on her clean pantry-shelf, calling me the carelessest young one she ever saw, and predicting that Id one day come to the gallus if I didnt mend my ways. Juliet, my oldest sister, scolded me for wearing, without her consent, her shell side-comb, which, in climbing through a hole in the plastering of the school-house, I accidentally roke. Grandmother scolded me for mounting to the top of her high chest of drawers to see what was in them; and to crown all, when, toward sunset, I came in from a romp in the barn, with my yellow hair flying all over my face, my dress burst open, my pantalet split from the top downward, and my sun-bonnet hanging down my back, my mother reproved me severely, telling me I was a sight to behold. This was my usual style of dress(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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