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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN OMNIBUS.—Page 187.
AUNT JO's SCRAP-BAG.
MY GIRLS, ETC.
BY LOUISA M. ALCOTT,
AUTHOR OF "LITTLE WOMEN," "AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL," "LITTLE MEN,"
"HOSPITAL SKETCHES," "EIGHT COUSINS," ETC.
BOSTON:
ROBERTS BROTHERS.
1878.
Copyright,
BY LOUISA M. ALCOTT.
1877.
Cambridge:
Press of John Wilson & Son.
CONTENTS.
I. My Girls
II. Lost in a London Fog
III. The Boys' Joke, and who got the best of it
IV. Roses and Forget-me-nots
V. Old Major
VI. What the Girls did
VII. Little Neighbors
VIII. Marjorie's Three Gifts
IX. Patty's Place
X. The Autobiography of an Omnibus
XI. Red Tulips
XII. A Happy Birthday
AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG.
I.
MY GIRLS.
Once upon a time I wrote a little account ofsome of the agreeable boys I had known,whereupon the damsels reproached me with partiality,and begged me to write about them. I ownedthe soft impeachment, and promised that I wouldnot forget them if I could find any thing worthrecording.
That was six years ago, and since then I have beenstudying girls whenever I had an opportunity, andhave been both pleased and surprised to see howmuch they are doing for themselves now that theirday has come.
Poor girls always had my sympathy and respect,for necessity soon makes brave women of them ifthey have any strength or talent in them; but thewell-to-do girls usually seemed to me like prettybutterflies, leading easy, aimless lives when theworld was full of work which ought to be done.
Making a call in New York, I got a little lesson,which caused me to change my opinion, and furtherinvestigation proved that the rising generation waswide awake, and bound to use the new freedomwell. Several young girls, handsomely dressed,were in the room, and I thought, of course, that theybelonged to the