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    The Little Mixer
    The Little Mixer
    The Little Mixer
    Ebook52 pages29 minutes

    The Little Mixer

    By Lillian Nicholson Shearon

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A great little book! It was our Christmas selection 2 years in a row, and short enough that we took turns reading aloud.

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    The Little Mixer - Lillian Nicholson Shearon

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    Title: The Little Mixer

    Author: Lillian Nicholson Shearon

    Release Date: June 14, 2007 [EBook #21830]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LITTLE MIXER ***

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    THE LITTLE MIXER

    By

    LILLIAN NICHOLSON SHEARON

    INDIANAPOLIS

    THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

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    Copyright, 1922

    By The Bobbs-Merrill Company

    Printed in the United States of America.

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    THE LITTLE MIXER

    There was no fault to be found with the present itself; the trouble lay in the method of transportation. This thought was definite enough in Hannah's mind, but she had to rely upon a seven-year-old vocabulary for expression, and grown-ups are notably dull of comprehension. Even mothers don't always understand without being told exactly in so many words.

    I didn't say the kimono wasn't nice, Mama, explained Hannah, "and 'course Cousin Carrie was awful good to send it to me, but—but Santy Claus is going to bring Virginia one to-morrow night, down the chimbley!"

    Rose Joseph slipped the absurd little garment over her daughter's dainty lingerie frock, and stood her on a chair that she might view herself in the narrow mirror between the windows of the living-room. The child was as lovely as a flower, but vanity was still sound asleep in her soul, and she glanced indifferently at the reflection, her body sagging with disappointment. It is just like those little Japanese girls wear, her mother cried in that over-enthusiastic adult tone which warns a child he is about to be the recipient of a gold brick. I am sure Virginia's can't be any nicer than this one!

    "But, Mama, Santy Claus is going bring hers

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