"
Miss Polly actually stamped her foot.
"There you go like all the rest, Nancy. What game?"
Nancy lifted her chin. She faced her mistress and looked her
squarely in the eye.
"I'll tell ye, ma'am. It's a game Miss Pollyanna's father learned
her ter play. She got a pair of crutches once in a missionary
barrel when she was wantin' a doll; an' she cried, of course,
like any child would. It seems 'twas then her father told her
that there wasn't ever anythin' but what there was somethin'
about it that you could be glad about; an' that she could be glad
about them crutches."
"Glad for--CRUTCHES!" Miss Polly choked back a sob--she was
thinking of the helpless little legs on the bed up-stairs.
"Yes'm. That's what I said, an' Miss Pollyanna said that's what
she said, too. But he told her she COULD be glad--'cause she
DIDN'T NEED 'EM."
"Oh-h!" cried Miss Polly.
"And after that she said he made a regular game of it--findin'
somethin' in everythin' ter be glad about. An' she said ye could
do it, too, and that ye didn't seem ter mind not havin' the doll
so much, 'cause ye was so glad ye DIDN'T need the crutches.
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