"He came! He came!" she screamed, as a tousled, flame-colored head
showed at the window opposite.
Hannah brushed by her parents and, running to the window nearest
Virginia's room, repeated her message. Then she came back into the
nursery, still oblivious of mother and father, and stared about her in
ecstasy. The occasion called for some expression of thanksgiving--what
could it be? A seven-year-old child hasn't words for such a big emotion.
She could think of but one thing to do.
Reverently bowing her little bronze head, she made the sign of the
cross--upside down!
THE END
End of Project Gutenberg's The Little Mixer, by Lillian Nicholson Shearon
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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