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"Did he bring you up to let a stranger come to the house and build his own fire?" "No, but it's the schoolmarm's job to build this one," replied Douglas. "Jimmy Day, you and Doug go in and get that old stove going!" ordered Grandma. Both boys dismounted slowly, tied their horses, and amidst a general chuckle, disappeared into the schoolhouse.
They air tryin' to pay for what their schoolmarm's put into their heads and hearts." "Miss Buchanan has taught us a thing or two," I suggested. "Yes," Mrs. Spafford replied solemnly, "she hev."
Three letters were the cause of this emotion on Mrs. Taylor's part; one addressed to Bennington, one to Dunbarton, and the third here was the great excitement to Bennington, but not in the little schoolmarm's delicate writing. A man's hand had traced those plain, steady vowels and consonants. "It's come!" exclaimed Mrs. Taylor, at this sight. "He has written to her mother himself."
Within a week we knew that the big boys were becoming unmanageable, but no such information leaked from Alethea-Belle's lips. Each evening at supper we asked how she had fared during the day. Always she replied primly: "I thank you; I'm getting along nicely, better than I expected." Mrs. Spafford, a peeper through doors and keyholes, explained the schoolmarm's methods.
After supper, Mrs. Spafford and she washed up. Later, they brought their sewing into the sitting-room. While we were trying to thaw the little schoolmarm's shyness, a mouse ran across the floor. In an instant Miss Buchanan was on her chair.
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