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Updated: June 17, 2025

Carew looked up with the startled something in her eyes that always came into them at the mention of any variant of that name. "Yes; Jimmy Bean." "Oh BEAN," said Mrs. Carew, relaxing. "Yes. He was from an Orphan's Home, and he ran away. I found him. He said he wanted another kind of a home with a mother in it instead of a Matron. I couldn't find him the mother-part, but I found him Mr.

Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter - Pollyanna Grows Up

Some parents teach their children at once that the pistil is the mother-part of the plant, caring for the young seeds, the stamens the father part, providing for them, and that the stamens and pistil growing in the same flower are brothers and sisters.

Margaret Warner Morley - The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young