The Moffat Museum by Eleanor Estes

Author:Eleanor Estes [Estes, Eleanor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780152025472
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2012-10-09T08:01:28+00:00

So now to pack! Jane packed her satchel and unpacked it and packed it again. Sometimes she put her pink dress on top, sometimes her nightgown. She finally left it with her nightgown on top. She fastened the two clasps. They didn't seem very strong. She got a cord from the kitchen and tied it around the satchel, so neither her nightgown nor her pink dress would go flying out the train window.

She put her little red patent leather pocketbook on the chair beside the blue dress she would wear. It had some nickels, some dimes, and a one-dollar bill in it, also a little envelope that had the exact amount of money to buy her ticket to and from the town of New Rochelle. She had a handkerchief in her pocketbook with her name embroidered in the corner, a birthday present from her aunt Tonty. If she saw a sad sight, or a funny one, both of which could make her tears flow, she could wipe her eyes.

Then she went to bed. Mama came up, turned off the gaslight, and put the littlest oil lamp on a bureau in the hall, where it always stayed on during the night in case anyone was afraid of the dark. Jane used to be, but not anymore.

She thought about the day. She thought about her conversation over the back fence with Mrs. Price ... the rehearsal for the big day tomorrow, as they had gone over it. Finally she went to sleep while still rehearsing and going over in her mind the stops on the train between Cranbury and Neufchâtel ... no ... New Rochelle....

Would the real trip tomorrow be as had been rehearsed?

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