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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - The Original Classic Edition
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm The Original Classic Edition Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Kate Douglas Wiggin, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a q... more »uick look inside Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm: Whenever the wheels sank farther than usual into a rut, or jolted suddenly over a stone, she bounded involuntarily into the air, came down again, pushed back her funny little straw hat, and picked up or settled more firmly a small pink sun shade, which seemed to be her chief responsibility,-unless we except a bead purse, into which she looked whenever the condition of the roads would permit, finding great apparent satisfaction in that its precious contents neither disappeared nor grew less. . . . The school teacher and the minister at Temperance had tried and failed; the young artist who came for the summer to sketch the red barn, the ruined mill, and the bridge ended by giving up all these local beauties and devoting herself to the face of a child,-a small, plain face illuminated by a pair of eyes carrying such messages, such suggestions, such hints of sleeping power and insight, that one never tired of looking into their shining depths, nor of fancying that what one saw there was the reflection of ones own thought.. . . Mother named half of us and father the other half, but we didnt come out even, so they both thought it would be nice to name Mira after aunt Miranda in Riverboro; they hoped it might do some good, but it didnt, and now we call her Mira. . . . The field for the exhibition of her creative instinct was painfully small,« less