Excerpt from The Little Colonel’s Good Times Book
This little blue one ringed with White I’d quite forgotten that there ever was a button made like that. But looking through it now, I recall as if it ‘wiere but yesterday, how it came into my possession. I got it in a trade, and long I haggled with the boy across the aisle to make him give it up; emptying my pencil-box, and searching through my desk for some thing that might not meet the scorn ful uplift of his freckled nose, in lordly disapproval of jus’ girl’s things. And I can see the very warts upon his grimy little hand, held out to take theobjects for which at last he deigned to trade: a big red wine-sap apple, the stub of an indelible pencil, and an agate, badly nicked.
That is the scene. The charm is, that for the moment, once more I am the child in ruffled pinafore, grasping the prize I coveted, seeing the world and human kind as one must see it who has not yet passed the limits of the Second Reader.
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