![]() ![]() ?Had a good sleep, Jimmy? she asked briskly. She had been crying, I could see, but when I opened my eyes she smiled, peered at me anxiously, and sat down on the foot of my bed. A tall woman, with wrinkled brown skin and black hair, stood looking down at me I knew that she must be my grandmother. I was lying in a little room, scarcely larger than the bed that held me, and the window-shade at my head was flapping softly in a warm wind. I do not remember our arrival at my grandfather?s farm sometime before daybreak, after a drive of nearly twenty miles with heavy work-horses. DIANA SECKER TESDELL is the editor of fifteen Everyman's Pocket Classics anthologies, including Christmas Stories, Love Stories, Dog Stories, Cat Stories, Horse Stories, New York Stories, Bedtime Stories, Stories of Art and Artists, Stories of Fatherhood, Stories of Motherhood, Stories of the Sea, Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories, Wedding Stories, and Stories from the Kitchen, as well as the Pocket Poets anthology Lullabies and Poems for Children. ![]()
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