Marjorie's Three Gifts
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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) won international renown with the publishing of Little Women and its sequel, Good Wives. Her works include An Old Fashioned Girl, Eight Cousins and Jack and Jill. Alcott grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, where her family befriended such literary greats as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Marjorie's Three Gifts - Louisa May Alcott
MARJORIE'S THREE GIFTS BY LOUISA MAE ALCOTT
published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA
established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books
Books by Louisa May Alcott:
Flower Fables
Hospital Sketches
On Picket Duty and Other Tales
Moods
The Mysterious Key and What It Opened
Little Women
Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories
An Old-Fashioned Girl
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
Shawl Straps
Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore
An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
Little Men
Work
Eight Cousins
Rose in Bloom
Under the Lilacs
Jack and Jill
Candy Country
Jo's Boys
A Garland for Girls
Marjorie's Three Gifts
A Modern Cinderella
Pauline's Passion and Punishment
The Louisa Alcott Reader
Spinning-Wheel Stories
Silver Pitchers and Independence
Behind a Mask (writing as A. M. Barnard)
The Abbot's Ghost (writing as A. M. Barnard)
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First published in:
BOSTON
1899
MARJORIE'S THREE GIFTS
ROSES AND FORGET-ME-NOTS
I ROSES
II FORGET-ME-NOTS
MARJORIE'S THREE GIFTS
Marjorie sat on the door-step, shelling peas, quite unconscious what a pretty picture she made, with the roses peeping at her through the lattice work of the porch, the wind playing hide-and-seek in her curly hair, while the sunshine with its silent magic changed her faded gingham to a golden gown, and shimmered on the bright tin pan as if it were a silver shield. Old Rover lay at her feet, the white kitten purred on her shoulder, and friendly robins hopped about her in the grass, chirping A happy birthday, Marjorie!
But the little maid neither saw nor heard, for her eyes were fixed on the green pods, and her thoughts were far away. She was recalling the fairy-tale granny told her last night, and wishing with all her heart that such things happened nowadays. For in this story, as a poor girl like herself sat spinning before the door, a Brownie came by, and gave the child a good-luck penny; then a fairy passed, and left a talisman which would keep her always happy; and last of all, the prince rolled up in his chariot, and took her away to reign with him over a lovely kingdom, as a reward for her many kindnesses to others.
When Marjorie imagined this part of the story, it was impossible to help giving one little sigh, and for a minute she forgot her work, so busy was she thinking what beautiful presents she would give to all the