. Small boys in big boots : a story for children of all ages . nrotation, and for a week practise in this school of the soldier. Mrs. Effie Bushnell was the widow of a retired New Yorkmerchant who had purchased a pretty country-place near thevillage, and taken his young wife there some dozen years beforethe day of Myras histrionic aspirations. When Anson Bushnell had married Effie Livingston, he hadbeen a man of fifty, and she a girl of eighteen. On his death,two years before the scene that has just taken place, he had lefther with a very comfortable provision for his children, safelyinvested
. Small boys in big boots : a story for children of all ages . nrotation, and for a week practise in this school of the soldier. Mrs. Effie Bushnell was the widow of a retired New Yorkmerchant who had purchased a pretty country-place near thevillage, and taken his young wife there some dozen years beforethe day of Myras histrionic aspirations. When Anson Bushnell had married Effie Livingston, he hadbeen a man of fifty, and she a girl of eighteen. On his death,two years before the scene that has just taken place, he had lefther with a very comfortable provision for his children, safelyinvested in mlt-edcre securities. o o These children were Myra, now thirteen ; Hettie, a tot of seven ;and Arthur, a studious boy of twelve. Consequently, though themother of a family, Effie Bushnell was only thirty-two, and tooyoung and beautiful to hope to be permitted to live entirely for herchildren ; though it can be truthfully said she had devoted herselfto them, until one bright summers day her carriage had drawn up R**»*\> » V « V C ,; . •:„ :./,. OH, TEDDY TEDDY ! MA WONT LET ME BE AN ACTRESS !
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