we saw Tom shuck some corn to feed the chickens--he showed
us how he did it," Rose answered.
"But what did Russ and Laddie do?"
"Oh, they went in and looked at the corn shucker. But they didn't put
their hands in and turn the wheel, 'cause Tom said if they did that their
fingernails would come off."
"Mercy me! I shouldn't want that to happen," said Mrs. Bunker with a
laugh. "But go on, Rose, tell me what they did do?" she went on, for she
saw that Rose felt very sad.
"Well, they wanted to shuck some corn," went on the little girl, "but they
didn't durst do it. Then Russ saw me have my messenger girl doll, with the
yellow shoe buttons down her back and front, and he said she looked just
like an ear of corn."
"That wasn't very nice of him," put in Mrs. Bunker.
"Oh, well, I didn't mind," said Rose. "The yellow shoe buttons are like
the grains of corn the chickens eat. One button did come off and a rooster
picked it up and swallowed it." Rose was no longer crying.
"Poor rooster! I hope it won't hurt him," laughed Mrs. Bunker.
"I don't guess it will," said Rose, "'cause he crowed awful loud right
after it. He must have liked it. But, anyhow, Russ said my doll looked
like an ear of corn, so he asked me to let him take her to shuck off her
buttons."
"And did you?" asked Mrs. Bunker.
"Yes'm, I did, Mother. He and Laddie put my doll in the corn shucker and
they started to turn the wheel. Then I thought maybe my doll would be
hurt, and I wanted her back again. But they wouldn't give her to me, so I
came to tell you!" And once more the tears came into the little girl's
eyes.
"Well, I'll fix it all right," said Mrs. Bunker. "Don't cry, Rose. Even if
her buttons are all shucked off we can sew more on. Don't cry!"
So Rose dried her tears and hurried on after her mother out to Grandma
Bell's corncrib.
As they came near it they could hear a grinding noise, and then the voice
of Laddie called:
"Oh, Russ! here come some of the buttons."
"Yes! A lot of 'em!" Russ add
Notka biograficzna
Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.