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Pollyanna

CHAPTER III
15/18

Your aunt don't like ice-cream, I guess; leastways I never saw it on her table." Pollyanna's face fell.
"Oh, doesn't she?
I'm so sorry! I don't see how she can help liking ice-cream.

But--anyhow, I can be kinder glad about that, 'cause the ice-cream you don't eat can't make your stomach ache like Mrs.White's did--that is, I ate hers, you know, lots of it.

Maybe Aunt Polly has got the carpets, though." "Yes, she's got the carpets." "In every room ?" "Well, in almost every room," answered Nancy, frowning suddenly at the thought of that bare little attic room where there was no carpet.
"Oh, I'm so glad," exulted Pollyanna.

"I love carpets.

We didn't have any, only two little rugs that came in a missionary barrel, and one of those had ink spots on it.


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