CHAPTER III
AUNT POLLY
AUNT POLLY was short and stout with merry blue eyes and curly dark hair that, where it showed under her pretty hat brim, was just touched with gray.
"Hello, Blessings!" she greeted the children, as they spilled out of the car to meet her. "Every one of you here? That's fine. How do you do, Sam? I've two bags there on the platform, if you will get them."
When they were all stowed away in the car, Sam put the bags in the front where he and Bobby sat, and backed the car out of the station driveway.
"Well, have you decided to come home with me?" Aunt Polly put the question to them bluntly.
The four little Blossoms glanced uncertainly at each other.
"Polly Hayward," said Mother Blossom gayly, "you know perfectly well no one could
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