Understood Betsy (1917) (14566551820)

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Title: Understood Betsy
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958
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Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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t Elizabeth Ann hadvery positive convictions on this point whichshe had never spoken of, because Aunt Fran- 103 UNDERSTOOD BETSY ces didnt really care about dolls. She onlypretended to, to be company for her littleniece. No, I dont! answered the little girl em-phatically. I get just sick and tired of al-ways seeing them with that old, bright-yellowhair! I like them to have brown hair, just theway most little girls really do! Ellen lifted her eyes and smiled radiantly.Oh, so do I! she said. And that lovely olddoll your folks have has got brown hair. Willyou let me play with her some time? < My folks ? said Elizabeth Ann blankly. Why yes, your Aunt Abigail and yourUncle Henry. Have they got a doll? said Betsy, think-ing this was the very climax of Putney queer-ness. Oh my, yes! said Molly, eagerly. Shesthe one Mrs. Putney had when she was a littlegirl. And shes got the loveliest clothes! She ?sin the hair-trunk under the eaves in the attic*They let me take her down once when I was ^K
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Betsy shut her teeth together hard, and started across. LI y . i \ EW i WHAT GRADE IS BETSY? 109 there with Mother. And Mother said sheguessed, now a little girl had come there tolive, theyd let her have her down all the time.Ill bring mine over next Saturday, if you wantme to. Mines got yellow hair, but shes realpretty anyhow. If Fathers going to mill thatday, he can leave me there for the morning. Elizabeth Ann had not understood more thanone word in five of this, but just then theschool-bell rang and they went back, littleMolly helping Elizabeth Ann over the log andthinking she was being helped, as before. They ran along to the little building, andthere Im going to leave them, because I thinkIve told enough about their school for onewhile. It was only a poor, rough, little districtschool anyway, that no Superintendent ofSchools would have looked at for a minute, ex-cept to sniff. CHAPTER VI IF YOU DONT LIKE CONVERSATION IN ABOOK SKIP THIS CHAPTER! BETSY opened the door and was gree