Next Things, and Dorrie's Day
Author: last_name: Pansy
Language: English
Year: 1880

Two short stories about young people who find themselves in difficult circumstances, written in 1880.

<i>Next Things</i> relates of two brothers, recently orphaned. They cannot live together anymore, so one goes to a wealthy home on the edge of town, and the other goes to work in a grocer's shop. Each takes their mother's advice to find the <i>next thing</i> to do, and do it. 

In <i>Dorrie's Day</i> we have a grown-up little girl who gets lost on a train, and relates the family's search fo