Samantha on Children's Rights Author:Marietta Holley General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1909 Original Publisher: G.W. Dillingham Company Subjects: Children's rights Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Law / Child Advocacy Law / Family Law / Children Social Science / Children's Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprin... more »t of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER OSIAH had to go to Jonesville that afternoon after necessaries, and I sot all alone in my cheerful kitchen almost lost in a train of pleasant thoughts, and some sort o' pensive ones, and at the same time windin' a skein of blue-and-white clouded yarn for Josiah's socks, when I hearn a little rap at the side door and opened it, and see to my surprise Miss Greene Smythe's black coachman, Pompey, who handed me a note from his mistress, sayin' she wanted me to answer it, Bo I told him to come in and sot him a chair. He stood by it, twiddlin' his cap round in his hands and hesitatin', but on my tellin' him agin to set, he sot. Sidled down into the chair, settin' on the extreme edge of it. And I took out my readin' specks and opened the note; it wuz big and square, and had a curious-lookin' seal on the back, with some strange figgers and a word or two on't, but it didn't seem to be spelt right; I couldn't make out what it meant; it wuz sunthin' like this, Astra Castra Numan luman. But if she meant anything about castor oil or somebody by the name of Newman, anybody could see that there wuzn't any spellin' to it. But then, I sez to myself as I read it, though I pity such a speller, let me not be hauty because I have had advantages and spelt down the school repeatedly. So I opened the letter. It wuz a invitation for me toattend a bazar for the benefit of the heathen at her boarding...« less