May Flowers

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The best of all were the cosey talks we had in the twilight. Frontispiece.
AUTHOR OF LITTLE WOMEN, LITTLE MEN, AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL, ETC.
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BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
Copyright, 1887 , By Louisa M. Alcott.
Copyright, 1899 , By John S. P. Alcott.
University Press John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.
Being Boston girls, of course they got up a club for mental improvement, and, as they were all descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers, they called it the May Flower Club. A very good name, and the six young girls who were members of it made a very pretty posy when they met together, once a week, to sew, and read well-chosen books. At the first meeting of the season, after being separated all summer, there was a good deal of gossip to be attended to before the question, What shall we read? came up for serious discussion.
Anna Winslow, as president, began by proposing Happy Dodd; but a chorus of I've read it! made her turn to her list for another title.
'Prisoners of Poverty' is all about workingwomen, very true and very sad; but Mamma said it might do us good to know something of the hard times other girls have, said Anna, soberly; for she was a thoughtful creature, very anxious to do her duty in all ways.
I'd rather not know about sad things, since I can't help to make them any better, answered Ella Carver, softly patting the apple blossoms she was embroidering on a bit of blue satin.