The seed she sowed : $b A tale of the great dock strike.Leslie, Emma
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The seed she sowed : $b A tale of the great dock strike.
Leslie, Emma
Docks -- England -- London -- Juvenile fiction; London (England) -- Juvenile fiction; Strikes and lockouts -- Juvenile fiction
"I can't do without you much longer, daddy. I should like to come home
at once, but of course I must wait till the strike is over. The rooms
that the Chaplins are to have are almost ready, and Winny will be
coming here next week I expect, so I shall wait and see her and help
Mrs. Chaplin get things straight, and then I can tell you all how she
is when I come home."
This plan of Annie's was adopted as being the best that could be
devised, and the very Monday that the men went back to work in the
docks again, Mrs. Chaplin, Winny, and Letty set out on their journey to
their country home.
All sorts of little comforts had been provided by Miss Lavender to
lighten the invalid's journey, and give her strength to endure what she
feared would be a very painful experience to the girl.
It certainly did try her very much, and, in spite of all her mother's
care and her teacher's forethought, she fainted two or three times
before she got to her journey's end. But when at last the station was
reached, her troubles were over, for there was her father, looking so
stout and strong, ready to lift her out of the carriage to a little
swing-bed he had contrived for her between some boxes in the wagon his
master had lent him to fetch them home in.
The furniture had been sent on from London the week before, and Annie
had been all day getting things comfortable for the travellers.
Letty fairly screamed with delight when she saw her new home, but Winny
was too tired to do more than look round at the sunny fields and up at
the window which her father told her was to be her own, and then with a
feeble smile at Annie she said: "God is very good to everybody. I shall
have a front window after all."
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