Identifier: movingpictureage03unse (find matches)
Title: Moving Picture Age (1920)
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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Subjects: motion pictures
Publisher: Class Publications, inc.
Contributing Library: Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Digitizing Sponsor: Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division

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e station to meetthe boy the authorities of theorphan asylum were sending,and found there not a huskyboy, who would help him withthe chores, but a scrawny,freckle-face little girl whowas so overjoyed to be metthat he had not the heart totell her she was neither ex-pected nor wanted. Oh, I think its lovelyhere! cried the excited littlegirl. And thats a lovelyhorse, isnt it? Its wonderfulto think that Im going to havea home, and belong to some-body ! Poor Matthew had the ten-derest heart in the world. Hecould not bear to dampen thechilds ardor, and decided to leave it to his spinster sister, Marilla, to settle the mistake withthe orphanage. Meanwhile, there seemed nothing to do but takethe child home with him for the night, at least. So Anne and herbasket, _ which, though light, held what she called all her wordlypossessions, were bestowed in the buggy, and the mares headturned toward Green Gables, the old Cuthbert homestead. Marilla Cuthbert was not so cordial, nor so tactful about con
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Annes kittle does not increase hangel must have kept at a respectf 11 cealing from the little girl the fact that a boy had been wanted,Marilla was at all times a firm and sensible woman rather than aparticularly amiable one, and today she was not in one of her bestmoods, for two good and sufficient reasons. First, she was pre-serving, and no woman likes interruptions and surprises on a hotday when she is engaged in performing the sacred rites of jelly making. Secondly, Marillawas undergoing a visitationfrom Mrs. Pie, wife of theblacksmith, and Josie Pie, asneaking, hateful little girl,whom Miss Marilla had al-ways disliked and distrusted asmuch as she disliked and dis-trusted the elder Pies. Mrs.Pie was a notorious gossip andscandal-monger, and her hate-ful tongue had wagged so in-cessantly all the afternoon thatMarilla would have welcomedhaving her kitchen to herself.But Mrs. Pie was determinedto stay until Matthew got backfrom town with the new boy,so that she should have some-thing

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