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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1

   Aunt Miranda

Sawyer, of Riverboro, has a Heart Which she Uses for no other Purpose Than the Pumping and Circulating of Blood.

Josephine Crowell

2

      Jane,

Rebecca's other Aunt, is Softer and Kinder.

    Her Heart
 has Been Broken.

Mayme Kelso

3

       Many miles
    from Riverboro,

on Sunnybrook Farm, Lives Mrs. Randall, Rebecca's Mother.

Jane Wolfe

4 Because of the Mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm, the Sawyer Aunts Offer to Adopt One of the Seven

 Randall Children.
 The Good Fortune 

has fallen to Rebecca.

5

      Jeremiah Cobb,

the Stage Driver of Riverboro, is sent by the Aunts for

        Rebecca.

Charles Ogle

6 "Here's money fer stamps and writin' paper. Aunt Miranda won't supply them luxuries when she's feedin', clothin' an' payin' fer yer ejjication."

7 "Didn't mend that hole in yer stockin'!"

8 "Don't fergit to wash behind yer ears, Rebeccy!"

9 "-hope this oilcloth'll keep that young'un from scuffin' up the carpets!"

10 "Does it cost any more to ride up there with you, Mr. Cobb?"

11 "Namin' her twins Elijah and Eliza will never open the gates of Heaven to that Simpson woman."

12 "I only learned a few days ago the Simpsons have never been married."

13

  Emma Jane Perkins,

the Blacksmith's Daughter.

Marjorie Daw

14 "My name's Minnie Smellie -

 my paw's the preacher -

and YOU'VE got a mortgage!"

15 "I haven't got a mortgage

   on YOU - have I?"

16 "- and I once poked it Clean through a girl!"

17 "Scared Cats!"

18 "I'm Emma Jane Perkins and we've got Seven cows!"

19 "We haven't any cows at all but I'm Rebecca

 Rowena Randall."

20

"Roses are red,

violets are blue -"

21 "These flowers aren't half so sweet as you."

22 "I'll learn you not to fiddle away your time

- Writin' Poetry!"

23 "DON'T go up the front stairs! Use the back ones!"

24

    "DON'T
 step on them

polished floors!"

25 "I think I'm going to get

 along very nice with 
  you, Aunt Miranda."

26 "I've my doubts! You're

 too much like your 

mincin' shiftless father!"

27 "He spent your Mother's money and left her with seven children

to provide for."

28 "It's s-something to leave s-seven nice children."

29

 The Only Undesirables

of Riverboro are the Simpsons -

  Shiftless and

"Poor as Church Mice."

30 "Heart fiddle-sticks! More likely it's yer stummick."

31

       "DON'T
 start bawlin'! Your

grandmother never allowed

  it in THIS house!"

32 "Gee! - what a little bit!"

33 "Just for that you don't get any!"

34

    A Stray

Sunbeam Journeys to Sunnybrook Farm

35

     Selling

Smith's Superba Soap -

     for the
    Simpsons!!

36 "We'll have ter bathe often'r than Saturday nights to use up all this soap."

37 "Missy Poorhouse!"

38 "I don't care if you tell your MOTHER - all your RELATIONS - the state of MAINE --"

39 "--- and the PRESIDENT!"

40

     From Riverboro
    Adam Ladd had Gone
     into the World,
 Won his Great Fight and

Returned, Wealthy, Wise - and

 Best of all, Unspoiled.

Eugene O'Brien

41 "Are - are you the lady of the house?"

42 "This soap is of such pure engredients that a baby can eat it with relish and profit."

43 "We are getting a splendid premium for some poor people - something which they greatly need."

44 "I've known what it is to do without a banquet lamp myself!"

45 "My Aunt will take three hundred and fifty cakes."

46 "My name is Adam Ladd."

47 "Are you the Mr. Aladdin who owned the lamp in the Arabian Nights?"

48 "I hate that hat, Mr. Aladdin, worse - worse than Minnie Smellie!"

49

 "HE TIPPED HIS HAT!
  and it'll be four

years before we're ladies."

50 "Well ---- we're the BEGINNINGS of ladies."

51 Visitors Day

   at
 School.

52

 "Our dear Pastor,

Reverend Smellie, will now address the school."

53 "I hope it is clear to you children that in the hypogynous monocotyledons we distinguish the funaria hygronetrica ---"

54 "While we are on the subject - can any little boy or girl tell me what is a hypocrite?"

55 "A hypocrite is a little girl who pretends she is what she isn't --- when she ain't!"

56 "Of all the girls that are so mean, There's none like Millie Smellie; And when I catch her out of school, I'll pound her into ----- jelly!"

57 "Arise, my soul - stretch every nerve! Shake off thy coward's fears."

58 "The mortgage lift from off the farm - And dry my mother's tears!"

59

         And After
     the Prison-long
  and Yawny School Days

there's comes Vacation Time -

       Heralded by a
       Circus Parade.

60 "Snips!"

61 "Stop the band!"

62 "Daredevil Dick will now purrform his TURRIBLE 'Leap for Life'!"

63 "Wot are we goin' ter do? Daredevil Dick has ditched us!"

64 "Get Fontleroy Scroggins!"

65 "Ladies and gentlemen! Is there a physician in the house?"

66 "Next we interduce Rebeccaretta - the lady bare-back purrformer!"

67

     Rebecca Learns
          that

Geographically the Temperature

         in the
      Middle Zone
          is -
         Torrid!

68

       Curtained
     by the Night -

Dark and Storm-threatening - Dave Simpson Steals a Horse

     from Adam Ladd.

69 "I guess you can't help being cross, Aunt Jane. You probably inherited it from Aunt Miranda."

70 "Do you think she will hate this one worse - worse than Minnie Smellie?"

71 "When the steeple fell she was struck by a piece of flying timber!"

72

 There are 

Mornings After - Without the Cold,

 Gray Dawn.

73 "They're all set against poor

Mrs. Simpson 'cause she 

doesn't wear any jewelry."

74 "Wedding rings are the fashion in Riverboro, but Mr. Simpson was too poor to buy one."

75 "Oh, dear, if they would only

  give them away as soap
       premiums."

76 "My Mother's."

77 "If you think this would make Mrs. Simpson happy, you may give it to her."

78 "Now yer temperature's normal - we'll tell our plans fer sendin' you ter boardin' school."

79 "When you put it on her finger Mr. Simpson, all the ladies in Riverboro will speak to her again."

80 "I'm dreadfully ashamed I ain't never done it before."

81 "We'll stop by the Parson's this evenin', Sarey."

82

   Aladdin's Lamp

Lends its Magic Glow to Rebecca's Last Evening

    in Riverboro_

83 "This is the man who stole your horse, Mr. Ladd."

84 "As Mr. Simpson and his wife are going to run our farm, I'll drop any action against him."

85 "You're so nice, Mr. Aladdin, I-I have decided to marry

  you when I grow up!"

86 The Departure

     for

Boarding School.

87 "You may not use it this winter - but keep it -- as a remembrance."

88 Three Years Passed by. Three Happy, Hardworking but Successful Years, for Rebecca - Culminating

  in a graduation
   "With Honors."

89 "Mirandy would a' felt rewarded had she been here."

90 "I haven't told Rebecca how seriously ill her Aunt is."

91 "I'm glad I met the child - proud I know the girl -- and longing to meet the woman!"

92 "Calm, fiddlesticks! Go down an' welcome her."

93 "I ain't dead yet --- don't mess up the bed with yer flowers!"

94 "I reckin I've been pretty hard on you, Rebecca."

95 "I've just been an old broom searchin' fer cobwebs and scornin' the bright, clean spots in life. How you must hate me!"

96 "No, Aunt Miranda, I love you!"

97 "God bless you fer that, Rebecca."

98

    With Autumn

There Came the Harvest,

   God's Peace --
     and the
Promise for Tomorrow.

99 "Now that Sunnybrook is sold, our family will live in Riverboro."

100 "Do you remember, a long time ago, when you said to me, 'Mr. Aladdin, I have decided to marry you when I grow up'?"

101 "I am grown up, Mr. Aladdin."

THE END

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