Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1
Aunt Miranda
Sawyer, of Riverboro,
has a Heart Which she
Uses for no other Purpose
Than the Pumping and
Circulating of Blood.
Josephine Crowell
2
Jane,
Rebecca's other Aunt,
is Softer and Kinder.
Her Heart
has Been Broken.
Mayme Kelso
3
Many miles
from Riverboro,
on Sunnybrook Farm, Lives
Mrs. Randall, Rebecca's Mother.
Jane Wolfe
4
Because of the Mortgage
on Sunnybrook Farm, the
Sawyer Aunts Offer to
Adopt One of the Seven
Randall Children.
The Good Fortune
has fallen to Rebecca.
5
Jeremiah Cobb,
the Stage Driver of Riverboro,
is sent by the Aunts for
Rebecca.
Charles Ogle
6
"Here's money fer stamps
and writin' paper.
Aunt Miranda won't
supply them luxuries
when she's feedin',
clothin' an' payin' fer
yer ejjication."
7
"Didn't mend that
hole in yer stockin'!"
8
"Don't fergit to wash
behind yer ears, Rebeccy!"
9
"-hope this oilcloth'll
keep that young'un from
scuffin' up the carpets!"
10
"Does it cost any more to
ride up there with you, Mr. Cobb?"
11
"Namin' her twins Elijah and
Eliza will never open the gates
of Heaven to that Simpson
woman."
12
"I only learned a few
days ago the Simpsons
have never been married."
13
Emma Jane Perkins,
the Blacksmith's Daughter.
Marjorie Daw
14
"My name's Minnie Smellie -
my paw's the preacher -
and YOU'VE got a mortgage!"
15
"I haven't got a mortgage
on YOU - have I?"
16
"- and I once poked it
Clean through a girl!"
17
"Scared Cats!"
18
"I'm Emma Jane Perkins
and we've got Seven cows!"
19
"We haven't any cows
at all but I'm Rebecca
Rowena Randall."
20
"Roses are red,
violets are blue -"
21
"These flowers aren't
half so sweet as you."
22
"I'll learn you not to
fiddle away your time
- Writin' Poetry!"
23
"DON'T go up the
front stairs! Use the
back ones!"
24
"DON'T
step on them
polished floors!"
25
"I think I'm going to get
along very nice with
you, Aunt Miranda."
26
"I've my doubts! You're
too much like your
mincin' shiftless father!"
27
"He spent your Mother's
money and left her
with seven children
to provide for."
28
"It's s-something to leave
s-seven nice children."
29
The Only Undesirables
of Riverboro are the Simpsons -
Shiftless and
"Poor as Church Mice."
30
"Heart fiddle-sticks! More
likely it's yer stummick."
31
"DON'T
start bawlin'! Your
grandmother never allowed
it in THIS house!"
32
"Gee! - what a little bit!"
33
"Just for that you
don't get any!"
34
A Stray
Sunbeam Journeys
to Sunnybrook Farm
35
Selling
Smith's Superba Soap -
for the
Simpsons!!
36
"We'll have ter bathe
often'r than Saturday
nights to use up all
this soap."
37
"Missy Poorhouse!"
38
"I don't care if you tell
your MOTHER - all your
RELATIONS - the state
of MAINE --"
39
"--- and the
PRESIDENT!"
40
From Riverboro
Adam Ladd had Gone
into the World,
Won his Great Fight and
Returned, Wealthy, Wise - and
Best of all, Unspoiled.
Eugene O'Brien
41
"Are - are you the
lady of the house?"
42
"This soap is of such pure
engredients that a baby
can eat it with relish
and profit."
43
"We are getting a splendid
premium for some poor
people - something which
they greatly need."
44
"I've known what it is to
do without a banquet
lamp myself!"
45
"My Aunt will take three
hundred and fifty cakes."
46
"My name is Adam Ladd."
47
"Are you the Mr. Aladdin
who owned the lamp
in the Arabian Nights?"
48
"I hate that hat, Mr.
Aladdin, worse - worse
than Minnie Smellie!"
49
"HE TIPPED HIS HAT!
and it'll be four
years before we're ladies."
50
"Well ---- we're the
BEGINNINGS of ladies."
51
Visitors Day
at
School.
52
"Our dear Pastor,
Reverend Smellie, will
now address the school."
53
"I hope it is clear to you
children that in the
hypogynous monocotyledons
we distinguish the
funaria hygronetrica ---"
54
"While we are on the
subject - can any little boy
or girl tell me what
is a hypocrite?"
55
"A hypocrite is a little
girl who pretends she
is what she isn't ---
when she ain't!"
56
"Of all the girls that are so mean,
There's none like Millie Smellie;
And when I catch her out of school,
I'll pound her into ----- jelly!"
57
"Arise, my soul - stretch every nerve!
Shake off thy coward's fears."
58
"The mortgage lift from off the farm -
And dry my mother's tears!"
59
And After
the Prison-long
and Yawny School Days
there's comes Vacation Time -
Heralded by a
Circus Parade.
60
"Snips!"
61
"Stop the band!"
62
"Daredevil Dick
will now purrform his
TURRIBLE 'Leap for Life'!"
63
"Wot are we goin' ter
do? Daredevil Dick
has ditched us!"
64
"Get Fontleroy Scroggins!"
65
"Ladies and gentlemen!
Is there a physician
in the house?"
66
"Next we interduce
Rebeccaretta - the lady
bare-back purrformer!"
67
Rebecca Learns
that
Geographically the Temperature
in the
Middle Zone
is -
Torrid!
68
Curtained
by the Night -
Dark and Storm-threatening -
Dave Simpson Steals a Horse
from Adam Ladd.
69
"I guess you can't help
being cross, Aunt Jane.
You probably inherited
it from Aunt Miranda."
70
"Do you think she will
hate this one worse -
worse than Minnie Smellie?"
71
"When the steeple fell
she was struck by a
piece of flying timber!"
72
There are
Mornings After -
Without the Cold,
Gray Dawn.
73
"They're all set against poor
Mrs. Simpson 'cause she
doesn't wear any jewelry."
74
"Wedding rings are the fashion
in Riverboro, but Mr. Simpson
was too poor to buy one."
75
"Oh, dear, if they would only
give them away as soap
premiums."
76
"My Mother's."
77
"If you think this would make
Mrs. Simpson happy, you
may give it to her."
78
"Now yer temperature's
normal - we'll tell our
plans fer sendin' you
ter boardin' school."
79
"When you put it on her
finger Mr. Simpson, all the
ladies in Riverboro will
speak to her again."
80
"I'm dreadfully ashamed I
ain't never done it before."
81
"We'll stop by the Parson's
this evenin', Sarey."
82
Aladdin's Lamp
Lends its Magic Glow
to Rebecca's Last Evening
in Riverboro_
83
"This is the man who stole
your horse, Mr. Ladd."
84
"As Mr. Simpson and his wife
are going to run our farm,
I'll drop any action against him."
85
"You're so nice, Mr. Aladdin,
I-I have decided to marry
you when I grow up!"
86
The Departure
for
Boarding School.
87
"You may not use it
this winter - but keep
it -- as a remembrance."
88
Three Years Passed by.
Three Happy, Hardworking
but Successful Years,
for Rebecca - Culminating
in a graduation
"With Honors."
89
"Mirandy would a' felt
rewarded had she been here."
90
"I haven't told Rebecca how
seriously ill her Aunt is."
91
"I'm glad I met the child -
proud I know the girl -- and
longing to meet the woman!"
92
"Calm, fiddlesticks!
Go down an' welcome her."
93
"I ain't dead yet ---
don't mess up the bed
with yer flowers!"
94
"I reckin I've been pretty
hard on you, Rebecca."
95
"I've just been an old broom
searchin' fer cobwebs and
scornin' the bright, clean
spots in life. How you
must hate me!"
96
"No, Aunt Miranda,
I love you!"
97
"God bless you fer
that, Rebecca."
98
With Autumn
There Came the Harvest,
God's Peace --
and the
Promise for Tomorrow.
99
"Now that Sunnybrook
is sold, our family will
live in Riverboro."
100
"Do you remember, a long
time ago, when you said
to me, 'Mr. Aladdin, I have
decided to marry you
when I grow up'?"
101
"I am grown up,
Mr. Aladdin."
THE END
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