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Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag Vol. 1
by Louisa May Alcott
Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag Vol. 1 is a collection of short stories by Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1868. It is a collection of stories for children that explore themes of adventure, family, and the human condition.
her pocket, ran to the garden, and hiding behind the big lilac-bush, ate it in a great hurry. It was just out of the oven, and so hot it burned her throat, and lay like a live coal in her little stomach after it was down, making her very uncomfortable for several hours. 'Why do you keep sighing?' asked Aunt Pen, as Patty sat down to her work. 'I don't feel very well.' 'You have eaten something that disagrees with you. Did you eat hot biscuits for breakfast?' 'No, ma'am, I never do,' and Patty gave another little gasp, for the bun lay very heavily on both stomach and conscience just then. 'A drop or two of ammonia will set you right,' and Aunt Pen gave her some. It did set the stomach right, but the conscience still worried her, for she could not make up her mind to 'fess' the sly, greedy thing she had done. 'Put a white patch in the middle of those green ones,' said Aunt Pen, as Patty sat soberly sewing her daily square. 'Why?' asked the little girl, for aunty seldom interfered in her arrangement of the quilt. 'It will look pretty, and match the other three squares that are going at the corners of that middle piece.'
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