Chapter I
Pink and White and Alive
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HEERY came out upon the veranda and stood looking about her. There are a great many things to see on a small girl's first day in the country; that is, the first day since last summer, which was a very long time ago.
There were two big locust-trees in full blossom, just across the gravel path, and stretched between them was a gay red-and-white-striped hammock. The hammock wasn't there last year, and Cheery wondered whether it had grown out of the trees during the winter, and also, whether it was that, or the white blossoms, or Mamma's handkerchief that smelled so sweet. She pulled the handkerchief out of her guimpe and sniffed at it very hard, but the odor
