THE APPLE TREE GIRL
Charlotte had eaten her cake and picked up her bunch of zinnias and kissed the old dame on her other withered cheek, those two parted firm friends and Charlotte knew she was well on the way toward solving her first Great Sum.
If you could only have heard Charlotte, too, on the other calls she made that afternoon, especially the one she made on the coquettish Miss Hawley, who was deaf and had an ear trumpet—but when all's said and done they were patterned largely after the first. Charlotte had simply made up her mind that she was going to like every body she called upon. As a result she made friends wherever she went, and at six o'clock she returned home radiant, her beaky little nose held high in triumph, as though it were holding a jubilee.
"Well?" said Aunt Hepzibah, who was busy at the stove. "See anybody?"
"Everybody!" laughed Charlotte.
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