Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-08-16
The LITTLE ROOM

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simply WORKERS. They make M ,h.nk 81
the Name woman vino wanted her @p.,apl
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work.ng-izys. How Old are her
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day night. ate. a.. the house work !. don.
up. They we're rather strict With mother
and ! ,h.Ik she had lonely childhood
Tie house e almost Z mi.e away from AM
L. ghbDrs. and Of On top II what thel
ca. stony Hill Il j. bleak enough p,
there e7en Ia summer.
When mamma was abOu. ten years Ol,
they sent her ~ cousins in BROOKLYN. vi,
had children Of their own. and knew NOR.
about bringing them up. She staid Their.
Ill. she vas married. she didn't 20 20 Yer
mont il AL thu, time. and II course hadn
seen her sisters, for they never would lezy,
home for day They couldn't even b,
induced u 20 u BROOKLYN u her wedding
80 she and father took their Wedding triJ
up there.
And that's Why We are going up Their
On our own
Don't, Roger; you have 10 idea hov
loud you speak. 80
You never say 50 except when / an
going 70 say tha, one little word"
well, don't say IT, then, or say il very
very quietly"
"Well, what vas the queer thing"
when they got 10 the house, mothe
wanted 70 take father right of into tn
little room she had been telling hin
about It, JUS. a. / am going 70 tel you
and she had said that Of all the rooms
that one was the only one that SCENE,
pleasant 10 her. She described the furni
ture and the books and paper and every
thing, and said il was on the north side
between the front and back room. Well
when they went To look for II, there wa
no little room there there was only
shallow china-cIoset She asked her sis
tiers when the house had been altered AM
a closet made Of the room that used 10 b.
there. They both said the house was ex
actly as it had been built-that they la,
never made any changes, except 70 tea
down the old WoOd-shed and build a smalle
one.
"Father and mother laughed a good dea
over it, and when anything was lost the,
would always say it must be in the It'll
room, and any exaggerated statement va
called 'littie-rOomy' When | was a chilli
| thought that was a regular English
phrase, heard ii 50 often.
"Well, they talked il over, and FINAL,
they concluded that my mother had beer
a very imaginative sort Of child, and haC
read in some book about such a it'll,
room, or perhaps even dreamed il, am
then had made believe, as children do
till she herself had really thought the room
was there"
why, Of course, that might easily
happen
Yes, but you haven't heard the queeI
part yet; you wait and see if you can ex