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Sunshine in the Heart; Or, Cheerful Amy, and Other Stories
Sunshine in the Heart Or Cheerful Amy and Other Stories Author:Amy General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1860 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint 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 book... more »s for free. Excerpt: THE SCHOOL-DAYS OF BERTHA GREY. " Come hither to papa, my Bertha," said Mr. Grey one morning to his little daughter, as she stood at his open study window to offer him the first bud of her early rose tree. " Come in to papa, and after we have had a little chat together, I will go with you and look at your pretty garden. But what have you in your basket ?" " Some bread crumbs for my chickens, papa," answered Bertha, " I was just going to feed them, but perhaps they will not mind waiting for their breakfasts. Do you think they will?" " I am afraid they will have a great objection, Bertha; so run away to your poultry-yard, while I read a little longer." Perhaps my young readers would like to know something of the earlier history of Bertha Grey ; so, as she will be some time with her chickens, I will tell you a little about it. Bertha was quite a baby when she lost her dear mamma, and thus she was left to the care of her fund papa, and an old nurse. Mr. Grey was a kind-hearted and excellent gentleman, but, alas! he was over-indulgent to his only child. As for nurse, she had no idea of the slightest wish of Bertha's being ungratified; indeed, her sole trouble was that she could not find more ways of spoiling her young charge. As Bertha's papa had a great deal of money, and delighted to purchase for her the prettiest books and toys that could be bought, she had but to ask to obtain anything she chose for her pleasure or instruction. But to confess the truth, Bertha had a much greater taste for the former than the latter, so that her days were chiefly spent in playing about her father's beautiful grounds...« less