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Pollyanna 1 This is really not a story .... it's a rainbow -- born of the sun- shine of a little girl's smile glistening through her tears ....it's a fantasy of children's laughter, of hope, of gladness .... for Pollyanna's "Glad Game" holds forth this message --

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, the joyous beam that smiles the clouds away.

2 One lovely morning when Spring was glorifying the Ozark mountains, a little girl sang a tired man to rest.

3 "Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows, the cradle will rock, when the bough breaks-"

4 "Oh, Daddy - you must not leave me....I love you so."

5 "Time will pass quickly. It won't be long before my little girl will be a great, big girl ---- then she'll find someone else to love and protect her."

6 "Not the Ladies' Aiders?"

7 "I'll only marry ministers."

8 "They're easy to cook for 'cause they don't eat much."

9 "We've had so much fun together, haven't we, Daddy dear?"

10 "I'm glad - he's gone to Heaven. I-I'm sure it's an improvement over missionarying in the Ozark mountains."

11 ... And so Pollyanna was left with only one living relative in the whole world. In far-away New England, a spinster aunt Polly Harrington, lived with wealth and comfort, but without happiness.

12 "Nancy!!! Hot water

and baking soda!"

13 Duty was a religion with Pollyanna's aunt ---- so, as a duty alone, she offered the orphan shelter.

14 The day of Pollyanna's leaving was filled with excitement, antici- pation ---- memories.

15 "That contains my

 necessaries."

16 ".... and this contains my dearest treasures."

17 "Wherever you are, Daddy Dear, I want you to know that I'll try to be glad."

18 "I am going to live

 with my own 

dear Aunt Polly."

19 On the day Pollyanna arrived in Beldings- ville, the only sunshine was within her own heart.

20 "Oh, Aunt Polly! I'm so glad, glad, glad to see you!"

21 "Well, I'm glad you're

 not Aunt Polly!

Now I have that to look forward to."

22 But nothing could dampen Pollyanna's enthusiasm.

23 The glad girl crosses the threshold of her new life, sure of a ten- der love awaiting her.

24 "Well, this is a nice

  howdy do! But

just what I expected."

25 "My stars! Look

at that mud!"

26 "Don't flatter yourself, Miss! This is my room."

27 "Your room is

in the attic."

28 "I'm glad I have that to look forward to."

29 "What are you crying about? She - she isn't your aunt!"

30 The sultry night that followed the rain led Pollyanna into more difficulties.

31 "I says, says I, you're a miserable, selfish old woman to treat your poor little niece

like that, I says."

32 "An' wot did she say?"

33 "Oh, she was upstairs -- she didn't hear me."

34 "A perfectly terrible looking man sprang through the window -- at my throat!"

35 "Excuse me, Aunt Polly

 -- it was me."

36 "I'll attend to you in the morning, Miss."

37 "Well, anyway - I'm glad it isn't tonight ! 'cause maybe perhaps tomorrow

 she might forget."

38 A lot of turnips, fast being surrounded by a hungry little boy ---- a fugitive from a distant orphanage.

39 At every turn Pollyanna found some dark life to brighten...

40 "My name's Jimmy Bean,

  I'm an orphan."

41 "That's nothing,

  so am I."

42 "I'm lookin' for a home

 and a real mother."

43 "Maybe - perhaps - my Aunt Polly will adopt you."

44 "I won't be no trouble

to her. I can work."

45 "I'm smart, I got brains, too....."

46 "An' I don't eat much...."

47 "Oh! them's turnips!"

48 The Ladies' Aid of Beldingsville are met to consider the welfare of the orphans of Timbuctoo.

49 "Here's Jimmy Bean....

 a nice little boy
 for you to adopt."

50 "As if mangy dogs and stray cats weren't enough without bringing in filthy little beggars from the street...."

51 "Excuse me, Ma'm, I wouldn't have come here only she told me you was a good adopter."

52 "Maybe, perhaps, you hurt his feelings."

53 Night..... A dark and stormy night -- there was a mysterious reason why Pollyanna did not want her aunt to put the butter in the cellar.

54 "Please don't go into that terrible cellar, Aunt Polly -- maybe, perhaps, the Goblins

 might get you!"

55 "Help, the turnips

  have got me!"

56 "Aunt Polly, dear, how would you like to be a little boy and have someone turn you out in the rain?"

57 "Pollyanna, go get me the old red crazy quilt ----- I don't know why I give in to your outlandish whims."

58 And then there was John Pendleton, the richest and most lonely man in town, who had closed the gates of his heart when the girl he loved married a missionary and departed for the Ozark mountains.

59 "Dear Little Memory Eyes."

60 "Old Son-of-a-Gun! I bet he's goin' to skin her alive."

61 "Why, it's my own

darling mamma!"

62 "I promised Daddy to be glad, and I try so hard, but, Oh, mother dear - I want to be wanted."

63 "I want to be loved, please .... come back to me ... please!"

64 "I also loved your mother."

65 "You oughta be ashamed of your- self - pickin' on her."

66 "Jimmy -- I'm crying because he's made me so ---- so glad."

67 "Gee, if that ain't just like a girl."

68 "I'm sorry, Mr. Pendleton, but there's about thir- teen of 'em I can't return."

69 Aunt Polly had known romance, too .... but a quarrel had separated her, for fifteen lonely years, from her girl- hood's sweetheart, the kindly village doctor --

          Tom Chilton.

70 "Oh, I'm dying,

 Pollyanna,
 dying!!!""

71 On the day of Aunt Polly's shopping trip to

 the city.

72 "Do you want to

 go to Heaven, 

little fly?...you shall."

73 "I'm so glad I'm going for the lovely ride."

74 "I'm tired of this 'glad' business, it's nothing but 'glad, glad, glad' from morning 'til night -- just for that you

   stay home."

75 "Well, anyway, I'm glad I didn't count on going."

76 "It's her birthday today, Pollyanna. I was jest thinkin' what a pity she was ever born."

77 "Well, I'm glad - that

  she isn't twins."

78 "He ain't no good, you can have him."

79 "Many happy returns,

   Aunt Polly."

80 "You see -- she loves him ! she's glad to adopt him."

81 "Please may we borrow

    your baby ?"

82 "This ain't no baby buggy,

 it's a fire engine !"

83 "You're the beginnings of a wife-beater !"

84 But Aunt Polly did not forget ---- So let us draw the veil and pass on, say three or four months later.

85 Like a sunbeam, Pollyanna with her glad game, sought to brighten the shadowed lives of young and old.

86 Old Lady Snow, for years had enjoyed poor health, and stubbornly insisted she had nothing to be glad about.

87 "These are my friends, Mrs. Snow - I brought them to cheer you up."

88 "'Her golden hair was hanging down her back'.... I haven't danced to that tune for twenty years !"

89 "She can't hear the music, she's - deaf."

90 "I'm thankful that I'm not deaf !"

91 "I'm glad that I'm

  not blind ...."

92 "Oh, Mrs. Snow, you're playing it - you're playing the 'glad game'!"

93 "My daddy used to say- if the dear Lord told us eight hundred times, to rejoice and be glad - He must have wanted us to do it -- some."

94 "How can I shoot straight

 with you looking
crooked like that ?"

95 "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; 'tis woman's whole existence."

BYRON

96 "Jimmy didn't fudge."

97 "I can't be bothered with women now, this is a man's game."

98 "You'll be sorry when I'm dead."

99 "All right, go on

    and die."

100 "You know Jimmy Bean, Mr. Pendleton. Well- he's just dyin' to adopt

  you as a father."

101 "He's such a little

   gentleman."

102 "He'll be so good to you."

103 "I'll teach Pollyanna not to dilly-dally."

104 "I didn't realize

 how much she 
 meant to me."

105 It was Aunt Polly who insisted they have a specialist, though Pollyanna pleaded for Dr. Chilton.

106 "... and I told her

 to go and die."

107 "Are you comfortable, dear?"

108 "Oh, Aunt Polly, you called me dear !"

109 "Maybe -- if I got really sick you would -- -- kiss me."

110 "It's so good to have you love me, Aunt Polly, I--I'm really glad I was hurt."

111 "Tomorrow, Jimmy Bean will legally adopt me as a father."

112 Hushed hours of fearful waiting ....

113 "My heart is breaking, Pendleton... to think that child has asked for me - and I am not allowed to see her."

114 "Doctor, why don't my

  legs wake up ?"

115 "Not that! Doctor, not that! You don't mean ---- the - child - will never walk again!"

116 "I suppose, Jimmy I won't be able to play with you

  any more."

117 "God wouldn't allow those little feet to be destroyed when He needs them to run His errands."

118 "You made us all so happy, Pollyanna, by teachin' us the Glad Game. Please try to play it - somehow."

119 "If I can't walk - how am I going to be glad - about anything?"

120 "Aw go on - try!"

121 "I'm glad -- I had so much fun -- on my legs -- while they lasted."

122 The songs of gladness were hushed while the long shadows crept into winter.

123 "You won't be mad at me ?"

124 "Please, Aunt Polly dear, why can't I have Dr. Chilton ? I -- just know he would help me."

125 "Pollyanna, you know I told Dr. Chilton years ago, the next time I asked him into this house -- he could consider him- self forgiven and I will

  not give in now."

126 "Remember, Jimmy, un- happy thoughts will only hurt Pollyanna."

127 Love had entered Aunt Polly's heart and there was no longer any room for hurt vanity or

 false pride.

128 "I am going to make you well, Pollyanna, because ...you have

  faith in me."

129 Even when it had become doubtful whether Pollyanna would ever walk again, the seeds of love she had sown flowered into a wondrous hope - a hope overshadowed with fear.

130 "Is there anyone you would like to see ?"

131 "No -- no one ....

 where's Jimmy?"

132 "I wasn't cryin' 'bout

 Pollyanna ---- I
got the toothachin'"

133 "Aw - she's kissin' him."

134 "Me an' you'll be growin'

  up pretty soon.

Guess I'll have to shave

in 'bout five years."

135 "I guess we'll be awful rich... I'm goin' to be a street car conductor."

136 "I'm glad of that, 'cause maybe perhaps we'll take our children for free rides for nothing

  on Sundays."

THE END

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