Emily and Jackson Hiding Out by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Author:Phyllis Reynolds Naylor [Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Usernet, C429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 978-0-375-98342-9
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2012-08-06T14:00:00+00:00
The kind thing to do, the children decided, was to take the poor woman to their cottage and let her lie down and rest. That was what Aunt Hilda would do. But how could they get her there?
“Can you walk?” Jackson asked her.
“I’m so very tired,” the woman repeated. “Too, too tired.”
“We could pull her in the wagon,” Emily suggested.
“We’ll be back,” said Jackson. “We’ll get you to the house.”
So off they went, back up the lane.
“I don’t know, she’s awful big,” Jackson said. “Do you suppose she’ll fit?”
“We have to try,” said Emily. “And if she’s thirsty, she might be hungry too. She’ll probably eat a lot. We could give her the beans and muffins Aunt Hilda left for us.”
Jackson wasn’t eager to give up his lunch, but there were other things in the cupboard he could have, so he figured he could be generous too. “And milk,” he said. “We could give her a tall glass of cold milk.”
Inside the cottage, Emily filled a jar with water from the water bucket. And with Jackson pulling the little red wagon, they went back down the long lane to the road.
The widow was sitting up when they got there and reached out one gloved hand for the water jar. She held it to her lips beneath her black veil, then gulped the water down so fast that it made little glugging sounds in her throat.
“Do you think you can get in the wagon?” Jackson asked her.
“If I have help, dearie,” the woman said, and holding on to the gate for balance, she pulled herself up off the ground. Jackson and Emily pushed the wagon beneath her. The woman sat down with a plop.
She was a very tall woman, with large feet. She sat with her legs hanging over either side of the wagon, her heavy boots scraping the road now and then as they moved along. Emily wondered if the wagon would break. Jackson pulled and Emily pushed, and finally they got the wagon up to the cottage door and helped the woman out.
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