Three Lives [antikvár]

THE GOOD ANNA PART I The tradesmen of Bridgepoint learned to dread the sound of "Miss Mathilda-", for with that name the good , Anna a1ways~CQnquered. ^^??^oo» The strictest of the one price stores found that they could give things for a little less, when the good Anna ^ad fully said that "Miss Mathilda" could not pay so ^ | much and that she could buy it cheaper "by Lindheims."^*^' Lindheims was Anna's favorite store, for there they I had bargain days, when flour and sugar were sold for a quarter of a cent less for a pound, and there the heads p:! j of the departments were all her friends and always managed to give her the bargain prices, even on other days. , m ^nnajg(j_g.n aj^noi^s and trmihled life., K Anna managed the whole little house for Miss Mathilda. if^ , It was a funny little house, one of a whole row of all the ^ | same kind that made a close pile like a row of dominoes that a child knocks over, for they were built along a street which at this point came down a steep hill. They were funny little houses, two stories high, with red brick fronts and long white steps. ^iu ^ ^LS^cils W ^ This one little house was always very fuJLjEitb Miss ^athilda, an under servant, stray dogs and cats and Anna's ^^!yoice that scolded, managed, grumbled all day long.