Not concluded, what’s going to happen next? I’ve enjoyed this story.Morning Annie fans. Here’s the next chapter of LOAAS.
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE AND SANDYBy Harold Gray, 1933CHAPTER 15 – The Iron Monster
In spite of her bravely-spoken words, Annie was impatient. The next day she went again to Tom Take’s house, but still he did not answer. Once more she peeked through the window but everything was deserted. Tom Take was a bachelor, and there was no one in the house to tell Annie where he had gone, or how long.
“Gee,” she said. “I thought sure he’d be home today. Oh, well. He won’t mind if I nose around his place here.” Annie had been in Tom Take’s yard before, and she knew what a fascinating collection of odds and ends of articles he had brought home from time to time. Good or bad, worthless or not, Tom kept them, and as Annie made her way about, she was trying to remember where she had seen a certain thing in Tom’s collection.
“Now, where was it I saw that thing? I was sure it was in back of his barn. Maybe that gate –”Annie pushed open a gate that led into another part of Tom’s yard. Wagon wheels, wagon springs, boards, and timbers were there, but there too was the thing for which Annie was looking. “Ah, there it is,” she sighed in relief. “A big iron dog, and it’s fastened to a big piece o’ stone. Wow! I don’t see how he ever got it here. I wonder where it came from anyway.”
But there was no one to answer her question, and as she shut the gate again carefully, Annie said, “Well, he still has it. That’s all I wanted to know for sure. I’ll just have to wait till he comes home.”
Every day the big dog, Sandy, got better and better. Annie was going to school again now, and after school and on Saturdays she worked in the store just as she had always done. One day when she was working in the store, she overheard two men talking. One of them had come in to buy a paper, and as he was reading it, the other stopped and said, “I see you talkin’ to Tom Take down at the depot t’other morning. What did he have t’say?”
“Oh, nothin’ much. He ain’t one to tell much. Did ‘low he’d go into th’ city for a few days.”Annie listened eagerly.
“Queer feller,” said the first. “Wonder how long he’s goin’ to be in th’ city?”“Lessee now. I think he said he figgered on comin’ in Saturday evening on the local.” Both men walked out of the store.
Annie looked after them. She understood now why she hadn’t been able to find Tom Take. “I’ll go out Sunday and see him,” she planned. “No hurry – My idea will keep. But I’ve got to tell it to somebody pretty soon or I’ll bust! And Toms’ the only I know who can keep a secret.”
davidf42 over 13 years ago
Not concluded, what’s going to happen next? I’ve enjoyed this story.Morning Annie fans. Here’s the next chapter of LOAAS.
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE AND SANDYBy Harold Gray, 1933CHAPTER 15 – The Iron Monster
In spite of her bravely-spoken words, Annie was impatient. The next day she went again to Tom Take’s house, but still he did not answer. Once more she peeked through the window but everything was deserted. Tom Take was a bachelor, and there was no one in the house to tell Annie where he had gone, or how long.
“Gee,” she said. “I thought sure he’d be home today. Oh, well. He won’t mind if I nose around his place here.” Annie had been in Tom Take’s yard before, and she knew what a fascinating collection of odds and ends of articles he had brought home from time to time. Good or bad, worthless or not, Tom kept them, and as Annie made her way about, she was trying to remember where she had seen a certain thing in Tom’s collection.
“Now, where was it I saw that thing? I was sure it was in back of his barn. Maybe that gate –”Annie pushed open a gate that led into another part of Tom’s yard. Wagon wheels, wagon springs, boards, and timbers were there, but there too was the thing for which Annie was looking. “Ah, there it is,” she sighed in relief. “A big iron dog, and it’s fastened to a big piece o’ stone. Wow! I don’t see how he ever got it here. I wonder where it came from anyway.”
But there was no one to answer her question, and as she shut the gate again carefully, Annie said, “Well, he still has it. That’s all I wanted to know for sure. I’ll just have to wait till he comes home.”
Every day the big dog, Sandy, got better and better. Annie was going to school again now, and after school and on Saturdays she worked in the store just as she had always done. One day when she was working in the store, she overheard two men talking. One of them had come in to buy a paper, and as he was reading it, the other stopped and said, “I see you talkin’ to Tom Take down at the depot t’other morning. What did he have t’say?”
“Oh, nothin’ much. He ain’t one to tell much. Did ‘low he’d go into th’ city for a few days.”Annie listened eagerly.
“Queer feller,” said the first. “Wonder how long he’s goin’ to be in th’ city?”“Lessee now. I think he said he figgered on comin’ in Saturday evening on the local.” Both men walked out of the store.
Annie looked after them. She understood now why she hadn’t been able to find Tom Take. “I’ll go out Sunday and see him,” she planned. “No hurry – My idea will keep. But I’ve got to tell it to somebody pretty soon or I’ll bust! And Toms’ the only I know who can keep a secret.”
Dkram over 13 years ago
Patsy Hersh, that one still gives me the giggles.
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TruckerRon over 13 years ago
Wasn’t Patsy based on the daughter of that Hershey chocolate tycoon? (;-)