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SOMEBODY'S LITTLE GIRL
by Martha Young






Dedication

To
Two Little Elizabeths:
Elizabeth Young
and
Elizabeth Magruder





SOMEBODY'S LITTLE GIRL



If I were just to tell the things that Bessie Bell remembered I
should tell you some very strange things. Bessie Bell did not know
whether she remembered them, or just knew them, or whether they just
grew, those strange things in some strange country that never was
anywhere in the world; for when Bessie Bell tried to tell about
those strange things great grown wise people said: ``No, no, Bessie
Bell, there is nothing in the world like that.''

So Bessie Bell just remembered and wondered.

She remembered how somewhere, sometime, there was a window where you
could look out and see everything green, little and green, and
always changing and moving, away, away--beyond everything little,
and green, and moving all the time. But great grown wise folks
said: ``No, there is no window in all the world like that.''

And once when some one gave Bessie Bell a little round red apple she
caught her breath very quickly and her little heart jumped and then
thumped very loudly (that is the way it seemed to her) and she
remembered: Little apple trees all just alike, and little apple
trees in rows all just alike on top of those and again on top of
those until they came to a great row of big round red apples on top
of all.

Rut great grown people said: ``No, no, Bessie Bell, there are no
apple trees in all the world like that.''