日期：2014-03-26 Up At Merry's Now fly round, child, and get your sweeping done up smart and early. Yes, mother. I shall want you to help me about the baking, by and by. Yes, mother. Roxy is cleaning the cellar-closets, so you'll have to get the vegetables ready for... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-03-26 Saint Lucy Saturday was a busy and a happy time to Jack, for in the morning Mr. Acton came to see him, having heard the story overnight, and promised to keep Bob's secret while giving Jack an acquittal（赦免，履行） as public as the reprimand had be... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-03-26 And Jill Finds It Out Jill worried about it more than he did, for she was a faithful little friend, and it was a great trial to have Jack even suspected of doing anything wrong. School is a child's world while he is there, and its small affairs are... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-09 Jack Has A Mystery What is the matter? Does your head ache? asked Jill, one evening in March, observing that Jack sat with his head in his hands, an attitude which, with him, meant either pain or perplexity（困惑，混乱） . No; but I'm bothered. I wa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-09 The Twenty-Second Of February Of course, the young ladies and gentlemen had a ball on the evening of that day, but the boys and girls were full of excitement about their Scenes from the Life of Washington and other brilliant tableaux（舞台造型） , a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-09 Down Brakes The greatest people have their weak points, and the best-behaved boys now and then yield to temptation and get into trouble, as everybody knows. Frank was considered a remarkably well-bred and proper lad, and rather prided himself on his... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-09 The Dramatic Club While Jack was hopping gayly about on his crutches, poor Jill was feeling the effects of her second fall, and instead of sitting up, as she hoped to do after six weeks of rest, she was ordered to lie on a board for two hours each d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-09 The Debating Club Look here, old man, we ought to have a meeting. Holidays are over, and we must brace up and attend to business, said Frank to Gus, as they strolled out of the schoolyard one afternoon in January, apparently absorbed in conversation... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-09 Merry And Molly Now let us see how the other missionaries got on with their tasks. Farmer Grant was a thrifty, well-to-do man, anxious to give his children greater advantages than he had enjoyed, and to improve the fine place of which he was justly... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-09 Jill's Mission The good times began immediately, and very little studying was done that week in spite of the virtuous resolutions made by certain young persons on Christmas Day. But, dear me, how was it possible to settle down to lessons in the deli... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-28 Surprises Is it pleasant? was the question Jill asked before she was fairly awake on Christmas morning. Yes, dear; as bright as heart could wish. Now eat a bit, and then I'll make you nice for the day's pleasure. I only hope it won't be too much for... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-28 Secrets There were a great many clubs in Harmony Village, but as we intend to interest ourselves with the affairs of the young folks only, we need not dwell upon the intellectual amusements of the elders. In summer, the boys devoted themselves to ba... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-28 Ward No. 2 Things were not so gay in Ward No. 2, for Mrs. Pecq was very busy, and Jill had nothing to amuse her but flying visits from the girls, and such little plays as she could invent for herself in bed. Fortunately, she had a lively fancy, and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-28 Ward No. 1 For some days, nothing was seen and little was heard of the dear sufferers, as the old ladies called them. But they were not forgotten; the first words uttered when any of the young people met were: How is Jack? Seen Jill yet? and all wai... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-28 Two Penitents Jack and Jill never cared to say much about the night which followed the first coasting party of the season, for it was the saddest and the hardest their short lives had ever known. Jack suffered most in body; for the setting of the br... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-28 The Catastrophe Clear the lulla! was the general cry on a bright December afternoon, when all the boys and girls of Harmony Village were out enjoying the first good snow of the season. Up and down three long coasts they went as fast as legs and sled... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-28 A Postscript My Dear S.: - As inquiries like your own have come to me from various friendly readers of the Sketches, I will answer them en masse and in printed form, as a sort of postscript to what has gone before. One of these questions was, Are th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-28 Off Duty My dear girl, we shall have you sick in your bed, unless you keep yourself warm and quiet for a few days. Widow Wadman can take care of the ward alone, now the men are so comfortable, and have her vacation when you are about again. Now do b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-09 A Night Being fond of the night side of nature, I was soon promoted to the post of night nurse, with every facility for indulging in my favorite pastime of owling. My colleague, a black-eyed widow, relieved me at dawn, we two taking care of the ward... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-09 A Day They've come! they've come! hurry up, ladies - you're wanted. Who have come? the rebels? This sudden summons in the gray dawn was somewhat startling to a three days' nurse like myself, and, as the thundering knock came at our door, I sprang up... 阅读全文>>