Stolen by the Sea by Anna Myers

Author:Anna Myers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2009-07-16T00:00:00+00:00

Maggie stirrred with the big ladle. "I can't find it," she whispered. "It must have cooked away."

"I heard that," said Daphne. "Everyone in my family has real powerful hearing. There ain't no use in whispering. Besides, that's what is supposed to happen to things in soup. They is supposed to cook to pieces."

"I'm not really hungry anymore. I feel sort of sick." Maggie turned back to the small table to set down her bowl. Just then a frog jumped from the table onto the windowsill. "Yikes," she screamed.

"Oh, he's alive." Beth lunged for the frog and caught him between her hands.

Harriet went over to peep between Beth's fingers. "Isn't he beautiful?"

Maggie looked too. "That's the prettiest frog I ever did see," said Maggie. "He's so pretty, I just got my appetite back." She held out her bowl to Daphne. "Fill her up."

"I will not." Daphne turned her back. "Not till that creature's outside. I spend all morning slaving over making this wonderful soup, and you girls go and bring in critters from the outside. Don't try to claim you didn't. You can bet the mister is going to hear about this too. I don't know as I can stay at this job with wild things like you around. I'm going out to my room for a fresh apron. You made me spill soup all over this one. I've got no time to mess with the likes of you. I'm planning to make a cake before the mister gets home."

When the door closed behind Daphne, the girls burst into laughter. "She worked all morning! She didn't have any idea how to make soup!" Beth shook her head.

"I'm really tired of her attitude!" Maggie looked down at the frog. "I'd like to put this little fellow in her bed."

"No," said Harriet. "She'd hit him with a shoe."

"We need a bigger critter," said Beth. "I wish we had a skunk or something."

"Well, I'll fill our bowls while you let our little friend go."

The soup was good. "It must have been a potato chunk with the skin on that I saw," said Maggie. When they finished eating, they made a cup of tea for Myra and carried it with some soup to her room.

Beth set the tea on the bedside table and Maggie, holding the tray with the soup, sat beside Myra.

"Wake up," Maggie said softly, and the woman's eyes opened. "We've brought you soup and tea."

"You're a sweet kitten, but just water. All I need is water."

"I'll get it." Harriet hurried from the room.

"Let me call the doctor for you, Myra," said Maggie. "I think I'd better."

"No." Myra put our her hands and struggled to push herself up in the bed.

Maggie set the tray down on the floor. "Let me help you." She squeezed behind the bedstead, put her hands under Myra's arms, and pulled up while Beth lifted with her hands on Maggie's waist.

"There," Myra said when she was sitting up. "See, I am better. I do believe I'll have some of that soup.

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