Show A N AR fl ARIE 5 ELEM ELEANOR OR H PO PORTER RTE R MST RATIONS kf BY RH CIP 0 copyright by ELEANOR H PORTER PREFACE which explain explains things father pother calls me mary alary mother calls calla me marle Ever tody else calam 11 me nie mary marl marle tho rest of m nuino la Is andersen anderson rin thirteen yeam old and im a cross current and n contradiction that Is sarah im that sarah in n wy iny old nuree nurse she bays she rend it that ilia children of unlike ts were ere nl at wax n cross crosscurrent current and a contradiction and anti my father fattier and lire fire un likes und im the children tilsit 1 Is fit the child im nil there ie in and now im going to bo be it bigger crops current find contradiction thun ever eer for im lint going to lle live tinly tile ahne with mother and tho the other half with flit father mother will go to boston to live lle alli and father will stay here a divorce you know im terribly excited over it nono none of tho the other girls linto cot got n in their fai nilles tind I 1 did like to bo be diner nt besides it auit to be awfully more ro 0 o lhnn just living ll 11 ane niong common will your fattier father and mother la in the he name house nil till lite iline if it its been nn tin thine thing like roy itly houpo au with my iny father unit mother in itt it I 1 thata why le decided to make a book of it that Is it really will ill bo be a book only I 1 shall liae to call it n diary on account of father sou know wont it be funny when I 1 dont fin ahne e to do on account of rather and I 1 wont of course the six months im thing flung alth mother in hut but oh mje m the six nion months thit im here with till him whew hut then I 1 1 I can stand it I 1 may even like it some ana a jims bo different and t well about ingling tills into A book As an I 1 started to flay ho lie let leta t clo ime I 1 know he nt lie ile saas a novels nrc fire it silly yaste of time if it not absolutely wicked but a diary oh he hinves diaries ho ile keeps one him neu anil ho tie tola told me it i bo be an ex ind find discipline for r me to do it too set down the weather and bit bitt I 1 dl devery deverT day the weather eather and what 1 I 10 every very day Inde indeed edl t lovely reading that would inake it uko lako thia thin the sun chines phines this morning I 1 got up ate my breakfast bies knat went atit to school bamo filin boino nto ate my ainner tiner played one orid hour over to carrie UL uey Y woods practiced on the thep nino bonfie one hour flour studied another lother ai hour talked with kotlier upstairs in lit her tier room about fand tho enow on oil the trees ato ate my sapper supper was talked to liy father down in tho the library myself and taking care not to be minded and lie til meant leant like mother only ho lie any say it right out loud you tou dont haa to say somo right oa out in lit blairr yord ou know thai I 1 ant to bed just nit if it I 1 was going to write ili alke bhat I 1 not much I 1 am ain but flut t r rhall shall call it a diary oh jes yes I 1 call it ax attry till I 1 take takle it to be printed then X trub name me tk n novel and fm vm going to tell that llo left it to film to make the spelling right and put in all till those tiresome attle comaris com coin mris nias and 1 and und question marks that 0 0 cj ar lodar i to make auch such a fuss fus about if 1 tho etory story part I X carat be cx ex to bo be bothered with alth looking up lip how flow orde arc are spelt aery ao do euln utes nor fussing over putting in a whole hole lot of foolish little dots and dasher a if it who was reading tho story arel anre d for that part the storys he the thing thin I 1 loe ime ive written lots of them tor for the girl too litile cibort doneit I 1 indan meant not a long this te in going to be of course and be lie so exciting to be living a etory in stead of nill nir it tt only atay when you g rp living A story aou ou cant peek peik over to the hack to seo how lie all nil corots out I 1 tike like that part sull still it aigy bo be all nil tau naro boulting ting after nil all not to inov ji lined 1 I like lore stories the beat best rn fathers rot got oh lots of books in the library and I 1 P rend of bom oven even rome vie of olf the ilia stupid old hiet bla oriee torlea and J 1 had to read road them when whon there jacint oleo else to rend read oa 01 there many love 1 1 got a few though borely put A and books of poetry on the ili shelf in her room but I 1 rend ah all thoe ages neo ago r why lna rm so thrilled oer this nuu deu one the one kw m living I 1 mean for of f course this will be a loyo love etory there II 11 be my love stor eticy r ln in t two vo or three enre ears when I 1 grow mw up and rind alle ini waiting theres and mothers nairse N arse jj taftt ahm youre fiat a toure ave buot like you were you yon were married that they marry aln aa that lule e think away what if lateur or mother or both of t them thee and I 1 should bo be there to it and the lie courting unil find nil off I 1 W hildat that bo be some lovo love story I 1 oil pit I 1 just guetis I 1 ami and only think how flow all tho the girl girls would invy i file tind find they junt just 1 silting their linin humdrum druin et elut exist t not with till fathers und find mother mothers already married il will ahing together onil find noth ing ins hah to loot look to for vor 11 kaow when you conio conto right don doun to lip it there arent ninny girls flint I 1 ism ahne e got the tile ceonie I 1 14 0 cot and nil in thata liy ile 14 0 decided to write it into it book oh es ea I 1 know i jill meng N and so that why ive decided to write it into a book back im loung oung only thirteen hut but I 1 feel really awfully nu fully old find you oil know a Is us its old ab sho she feel feels besides nes ldes nure baralt 8 itin am old for roy ngo age and thahue tha tUe no wonder the tile kind of a life ive live and anil mabbe a that Is so of course it line has jen je bean n different dK Terent etli till a father and nd inot lier that ore are getting rt rand to he be from what it muad A ouid liue fin c been 11 ing with the he 11 to ing eo rafter kind nurse sarah mils its a shaine find 11 pity and that ats the children that alvas always suffer but im not stiffening stif fering not n mite im just it its so exciting of course if I 1 its goloff to lose either one ne it would be different but im lint not fur for I 1 nin ain to lle llo alth mother six nion months thit then with fill vather so I 1 still lina them both and when olien you coine right down to it id rather take them separate that jay ay wh separate there just perfectly nil all right like that tent chrit hat i do 10 it po vIder sed litzer or something like that anyhow that hito immler chilt you mix in two glas kinee and alint looks just like ater ou put thun toji ether and anti then oh off evl inv I 1 filla it a fusa f bugs find izz and epius leri terl well its that any fly alth fill rattler imd mother lother lus to lots to take them I 1 knovs kno for nox no I 1 can bo be mir six konttis then marlo six mon months tIvit tint and not try to bo be them both nil all at once with flit nin bo bob five between bliem and I 1 think I 1 shull hue both father and 1 lother betten he parate too of churbe I 1 love mother and I 1 know rd ird juat just adore rather if it lied hed let me ine hes fleit 50 tall find fine nidd splendid when hen hes out among folk all the tile girls are simple simp crar ot er liap and anti I 1 nm hitt too only nt at inome iome wll niell its hard to bo be mary androu and you see he be nailed me nt but I 1 ten tem thai heip ileata part of lite stor find tills Is 4 only aly the preface im tint going to begin it anor row the lie roni real atory chalaem jonm but there thre I 1 cull call it a chapter out loud dont have find ts it 11 hillury 1 I 1 rous tnt forget jitni ith n diar but I 1 can birite tirite alto it amin as ar it cha cinter liter for its going to ho he n after its got done biting in ing a it dhir CHAPTER I 1 I 1 am born the win IMIS slowly setting in the west est n aln goldan bohms of light into to tile r old room I 1 hill P i lie ns nj it ought to 10 begin I 1 knor ml id 1 1 l like to do it but I 1 cant im ill h hinnan hIn itaw being born of courm mu i rk shrah saas lle the bitt sun u binin it t ill till it inq night and it the 11 I 1 i mit she rp rr member members ul ill kah 11 j i ti tt I 1 ac lie ranry for or father avns aras in lip 4 I tilory and be ae u disturb ir 1 gitil 1 lit r diliert ou know and av lie he millis 4 n know lie and lind a i I 1 late titer r unlit t it it I 1 tie h 4 1111 10 1 1 I i 1 ml ink into to to 1 r i r r i flown 1 tiling too 1 11 ll to 0 III I 1 klimut one ono of for iiii I 1 lie I 1 lolani to rn I 1 biu in I 1 slight nit lit alep ju split smile thill nebout thoc thoo o old stiff biml ahn jin hills to u puy pity to to it thins I 1 i I 1 ng i imi an I 1 oil fill I 1 forgot 14 to vity that I 1 1110 ll 11 im 1 and not iut but I 1 fixed 1 to 0 rail them hut glnn lie if I 1 afta n little sirl anit mot tier KII it wan it good natine fur hor I 1 livin fin yinwu u for 1 they wen a ron i tit t fier nil sill right rah oh olt ehu site nid right off litter that ache be nipan that find t lint that I 1 insist forget sit uld it liti molln therm rh finx lint about bout site ali ii N well nil As I 1 wan i ax haying father didn dian t know until after breakfast tant lie had a little daughter infighter boncer Won ve neer tell hint thing just befaro anil then nurse told fold him film I 1 what lie saia and nurse find goic nc her tier runny funny to ber 1 yes ant did lid lo lie 10 any In indeed aced she lio retorted 1 ile I if frowned frow nod looked kind of f dadd men I 1 muttered nutt ered well well ur tits on rny iny I 1 veto td to ile h 11 then lie in to see me vie I 1 dunt dont kno knon of course what lie ho thought of life but I 1 guess lie didi ditillo think dinue intilli b of juo juso from froin what nure nura v said of course I 1 ne as iery very ory ery and I 1 neer bet vt daw a little bit of i balia bah that no pretty or looked ae am if it ung as mud account bo so 3 m blame liin inid wild lio lie looked at me ins nini well well upon tny iny antii and meet tied really quite ri oil till they started to put nio tile in hid filp firnin then ho ito threw up aunill 11 liand lin nd off tind find cried oh olt no no nol no lie turned to mother and hulad d ho site wits feeling moll m oll then lie iju wot out of tho the room just ne as quick nn nf lie rould and hield that woh wak tho end of it so fur far its any niura attention to nio tile ins concer ried fur quite a i while title I 1 ile ie uns antich more interested in fits now new thap ho lie was wits in lil hiew sive newa W wo we ero em both born thy ile I 1 anane til klit see and find alint lote lots more inore consequence than I 1 o 0 11 S dut but then shnte iother nil all ner over and A one of tile things I 1 think tatt bothers mother other I 1 heard her ber say once to vather that elie she see why alen hen there u were ere so many anany naturist at urist d paltry one or two more need to be ke inide e such n fuss about and I 1 dona either Is bilut Vitt ainther lier just grohn ero tined Vil und find shook fills fiend find threw throw up his tits handstand looked so tired and 0 th ata los all he lie sald nil ho lie saas lots ot of ahnes iut its enough its enough otto nili keyou eel feel go gnall and mean and cant as if i vere just a little preen borni er nAiling on tho the ft round did a oner feil tell liko h green borm crabl ing on the ground ite its not a pleasant feeling at ull till 1 well yell no now about tho tile name of course they find to begin to talk about nio tile pretty soon ond burpo mid sald tile did lit talk a lot but tin fht settle it nurse said that that ins about the first thing that 11 how utterly they were cohig to disagree dian gree clout mother lother unnoted to call ne me lola after ler tier another inot lter and father to call me abigail june jane afat after r aln Is mother and find elther r vijo gho glo in to tle mother nus us skit sick and nemous and cried tried n lot those daa das and slie she used to sob out that if they they were vere going to nuino naine her tier darling little bab baby that A awful fut abl ahl gall anno they were very much mis taken that slie 1 would never neer alk I 1 I 1 or consent to it never neer then littler lr would M s 93 in hie fits cold stern wn wf atry viry well ell then iou jou nut neither ir slinia I 1 give gle my consent to my daugh daughters teri being named tent abrard viola the child Is a human being not n liddle in ili an orches orchestra trul and tho the way ay it wen ven nu hiir e suld until ceri everybody body was just about aboin ehnry then suggested Hugge stid I 1 anil and rather said alry wa on they might inight call me file mary and moil or r I 1 said she would bonx nt t i afar 1 otil she pronoun pronounce e i it t marte il it so ll 11 was ns settled rather called me MU ilar and nl ther called nio tile mafe knit nd right abny ever eer llod s ke to call me nie M N f r marie ml nd tho the nay its N ban en ovir kime of col irs when nhen you atop stop to think of it it s eort ort of queer and eunity though n I 1 think of 14 it groi growing ing up tip will with it us as I 1 did and always havink having ll 11 until suddenly one da it occurred to tit me file thul that none of the lie other girls eirls bad 10 two n imps one for their I 1 father and OIK orme fur their mother to call aknin lv hv I 1 to notice other things then loo their fathers and mother illan i IM in lit rooms ut tit op of the tile houp their fathers ond and slimed to like each other and find to to bilier ti lier jer and unit to have joke jole hinl solid laughs 4 oether tk elli cr and thi twinkle klc with flit I 1 r j ave eq niina IM Is most of them did and anil it fin one wonted it tu go to tit alk t or tir to if parta or lu tu plu spine nut flit ellior llan lais look tirl airl and borod 11 and und fai say li it verv er wll 01 if aou iu and then itself IK lit ill li not d it wl 1 I it cvet ere 1 11 was ats th ill it i 14 1 1 I tie never er saw the tile I 1 other girls fri kalhori fal hori und and mothers do that na was and find at ive oen seen quite a it loi lot of them theine too for for ive been nt lit the other girls alm linn s 11 lot to fot long ill time yell see ste I 1 dont dill stay a ai huie much boniv ulion I 1 an have 1 to we va do have hap a round table mth n rel red cloth irid tra n lami on it and find round it in ing 4 find 1 doln it 1 I in und ahers und nd reading and anif nien aing and it s lots lot hoiller where tile du hae them nurse chii ne sipa iny fi fiaher ther and ought never lo 10 hite boven mur alint lial lint I 1 hoti lunel her our Crl dg one pole IH it go the arnt chaar got I 1 asked her rhy why and what belr meant 1 oh full la I 1 did aou ou hear aliw demun demanded ded mattli the lite quick look over liar nh mh aint site 1 alway given iton lien bohos 1 talking gibout father nd mi libi cpr r will little mitchem do tunu ilir sure enough 1 little it tt hr aw if t I 1 disint knit alint lint most int antl lint 1111 no filid jill to h its kept in the lurk dark concerning I 1 ought to know and anti I 1 I 1 I 1 II 11 I 1 hi ito i sil ou pt 11 ind land pleasantly li lit il u fill aind dla dignity alty I 1 made ninde ter tell me life lint elio she nud and I 1 i side lur fur tell III a lot of things them too you see id juht de odds id it 1 I to write the book so 0 o I 1 bunted it tu anim berthing mer eera thing die could tell me I 1 illian t hur her about the tile hook hal of I 1 know to too to tell I 1 cram nix if to nunn nurse hut I 1 howll n nt and unit lIttly will when hen sidle so aw bow how bind glad I 1 wan mas to boar amo vo thing she could tell othe ol it lot tint and really Net mod nied tu to en i J jov av it 11 too coill n klie ube uns horoshun ho horo roshen ahen mother 1 t 4 nine its it braily xo title knows e ir 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