Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Aunt Hepsy's Foundling: A Novel
Aunt hephzibah Opened the door, house-broom in hand, and nearly fell headlong into the middle of the road.
That is, she would have done so, if She had not leaped over the step, bundle and all.
What business any bundle had on her door-step at half-past seven on that glorious morning in the Fall, She was at a loss to know!
Hadn't she had upsetting enough already, with the dun cow calving only the night before and having to have hot drinks concocted for her comfort and well-being at all sorts of unseason able hours, but that those wretched boys of Mrs. Bindle's at the corner shop must be up to some of their nonsense when they ought to be busy tidying themselves to go to school?
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