"Why, what a shame!" sympathized Pollyanna. "And didn't there
anybody want you? O dear! I know just how you feel, because
after--after my father died, too, there wasn't anybody but the
Ladies' Aid for me, until Aunt Polly said she'd take--" Pollyanna
stopped abruptly. The dawning of a wonderful idea began to show
in her face.
"Oh, I know just the place for you," she cried. "Aunt Polly'll
take you--I know she will! Didn't she take me? And didn't she
take Fluffy and Buffy, when they didn't have any one to love
them, or any place to go?--and they're only cats and dogs. Oh,
come, I know Aunt Polly'll take you! You don't know how good and
kind she is!"
Jimmy Bean's thin little face brightened.
"Honest Injun? Would she, now? I'd work, ye know, an' I'm real
strong!" He bared a small, bony arm.
"Of course she would! Why, my Aunt Polly is the nicest lady in
the world--now that my mama has gone to be a Heaven angel. And
there's rooms--heaps of 'em," she continued, springing to her
feet, and tugging at his arm.
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