[THE POET SISTERS]
| Alice | Clovernook | postoffice | |
| Phœbe | Cincinnati | newspaper | parties |
Alice Cary.
The Clovernook cottage was the home of the Cary family, and the Poet Sisters were Alice Cary and Phœbe Cary.
While the sisters were still little girls, they began to write verses. Phœbe was but fourteen years old when she sent her first poem to a newspaper. She told no one, not even her sister Alice, what she had done.
At last her father brought the paper from the postoffice. When Phœbe saw her poem in print she was so happy that she laughed and cried. After that, she did not care if her clothes were plain, or if she could not go to school as much as she wished.
