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    The Potato Child & Others
    The Potato Child & Others
    The Potato Child & Others
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    The Potato Child & Others

    By Lucia Prudence Hall Woodbury

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Potato Child & Others - Lucia Prudence Hall Woodbury

      Project Gutenberg's The Potato Child and Others, by Mrs. Charles J. Woodbury

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      Title: The Potato Child and Others

      Author: Mrs. Charles J. Woodbury

      Release Date: May 1, 2009 [EBook #5662]

      Last Updated: February 7, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE POTATO CHILD AND OTHERS ***

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      THE POTATO CHILD & OTHERS

      By Mrs. Charles J. Woodbury

      If only our help could begin as soon as our hindrance does.

      Contents

      The Potato Child

      It was certain that Elsie had a very hard and solitary life.

      When Miss Amanda had selected her from among the girls at The Home, the motherly matron felt sorry.

      She is a tender-hearted little thing, and a kind word goes a great way with Elsie.

      Miss Amanda looked at the matron as if she were speaking Greek, and said nothing. It was quite plain that few words, either kind or unkind, would pass Miss Amanda's lips. But The Home was more than full, and Miss Amanda Armstrong was a person well known as the leading dressmaker in the city, a person of some money; not obliged to work now if she didn't wish to. If cold, she is at least perfectly just, they all said.

      So Elsie went to work for Miss Amanda, and lived in the kitchen. She waited on the door, washed the dishes, cleaned the vegetables, and set the table (Miss Amanda lived alone, and ate in the kitchen). Every Friday she swept the house. Her bed was in a little room in the back attic.

      When she came, Miss Amanda handed her a dress and petticoat, and a pair of shoes. These are to last six months, she said, and see you keep yourself clean. She gave her also one change of stockings and underclothes.

      Here is your room; you do not need a light to go to bed by, and it is not healthy to sleep under too many covers.

      It wasn't so much what Miss Amanda did to her, for she never struck her, nor in any way ill-treated her; nor was it so much what she said, for she said almost nothing. But she said it all in commands, and the loving little Elsie was just driven into herself.

      She had had a darling mother, full of love and tenderness, and Elsie would say to herself, I must not forget the things mama told me, 'Love can never die, and kind words can never die.' But she had no one to love, and she never heard any kind words; so she was a bit worried. "I shall forget how kind words sound, and

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