IT was early in the morning when Nancy Nelson awoke. She got up and put on her wrapper and one slipper, as she couldn’t get the other one on, though she tried hard. “Ah,” she said, “there must be something in my slipper.” So Nancy felt in her slipper and then pulled out her hand. Why, there was a little package! “Who put it in there, I wonder,” she said, quite surprised. Nancy asked everybody in the house. Then her mother said, “Nancy, did you forget that it is your birthday?” Then she opened the little package and found a small silver thimble, with the name “Nancy Nelson” on it.

Anne Morrison, Form IV.