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I found the most delightful book written in 1882 called When I Was a Little Girl.

From time to time I’ll put in parts of it on the Just For Fun page.

When I Was a Little Girl  

By Mrs. F. A. Humphrey

Chapter One

About Buttercup

When I was a little girl I lived in Pinelands.                                               

Pinelands is in Massachusetts.

My father owned a flock of sheep.

There were seventy-five sheep in the flock.                                                     

He had a sheep barn.                                                                                      

It was not so large as the barn where the cows and oxen were kept.

But I liked the sheep barn the best.

I could climb up on the hay.

Sometimes I found a hen’s nest full of eggs in the hay.                                    

Sometimes I threw the hay down into the racks for the sheep to eat.

The sheep were kept in this barn in the winter.

In the spring they were away to the pastures.

How pretty the little white lambs looked as try played on the green grass!

Sometimes there was a black lamb.

Did you ever have a lamb of your own?

I had one once.  She was a beauty.

I loved her dearly.

Her name was Buttercup.

To be continued…

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