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| Author: | Advent Drabblers [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:41 am ] |
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Jo of the Chalet School - A 'learn to read' book for the very young. The Robin. The Robin is a baby The Robin is frail. The Robin has no mummy. The Robin has a daddy. He is far away. We will care for The Robin. Here is The Robin. Look at The Robin. Look here at The Robin. See The Robin Sleep. See her in Miss Maynard's arms. See her curls. See her black curls. Look at The Robin's black curls. Jo loves The Robin. Madge loves The Robin. Everyone loves The Robin. Throw up. See the reader throw up. | |
| Author: | janetbrown23 [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:09 am ] |
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| Author: | Alison H [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:10 am ] |
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Just burst out laughing at the last two lines! | |
| Author: | Elle [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:17 am ] |
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Loved the last two lines! | |
| Author: | Karoline [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:31 am ] |
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| Author: | moiser30 [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:35 am ] |
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I can't stop laughing it's so good | |
| Author: | LauraMcC [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:02 am ] |
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Very funny, and so true! I agree that the last two lines were the best!
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| Author: | alicat [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:17 am ] |
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Lovely...wishing there was an up-chucking smiley (then again p'raps not....)
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| Author: | Celia [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 12:30 pm ] |
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Oh dear, how many of 'the very young' have I heard stumbling through the likes of this, but not one of those primers had such an appropriate ending
Thanks AD | |
| Author: | Elder in Ontario [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:35 pm ] |
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Oh dear.....!!!
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| Author: | Advent Drabblers [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 7:41 pm ] |
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The Social Worker’s report. I was asked to go and check on Cecilia Humphreys, although it wasn’t an official report since the whole thing was a private arrangement. Her father was going to Russia for his work, and quite rightly thought that that country was no place to take a child at this time. Anyway Cecilia was handed over to a family friend who runs a school on the Tiernsee. I went over a few days after she arrived there to see how she was settling in. Miss Bettany met me at the door and showed me into her study, a pleasant room looking out over the lake. She told me that Cecilia had slept most of the way up to the lake, tired out with crying after saying goodbye to her father. Apparently the teacher who brought her up carried her most of the time, and I wondered what sort of a Hercules had managed to carry a six year old for all that time. When I met her I was surprised to see that she was quite slightly built, and although Cecilia is small for her age, that was still quite a feat. Cecilia was sleeping in a dormitory with other girls who lived at the school during the holidays - the Head’s sister, her ward, and another girl who just didn’t seem to go home in the holidays at all. They were all much older girls, but Miss Bettany assured me that once term started she would be with girls nearer to her own age, though she’s by far the youngest child there. When I met her I found her to be a pretty little thing, with masses of dark curls rioting over her head. She seemed to be happy enough, though missing her father, which was quite natural. She was young for her age, perhaps. For example, she told me that one of the other girls bathed her each day as she was too young to do that for herself. This surprised me a little as my own children were perfectly capable of bathing themselves at that age, under supervision of course. I had the distinct impression that she attracted this level of mothering quite deliberately, possibly as a consequence of losing her mother so early. I can see this state of affairs continuing, as Miss Bettany frequently referred to her as a baby, something that most 6 year olds would be very indignant about. I suspect that Cecilia will find it hard to break them of this view when she decides to grow up. However, she is being cared for very well, and by a loving group of people, and I’m satisfied that all her needs, both physically and emotionally, will be met well. | |
| Author: | Cat C [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 7:46 pm ] |
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I'd love to see Madge's face if she ever read that report! | |
| Author: | PaulineS [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:39 pm ] |
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I suspect Amy will persuade her to be more independant when she goes to the Junior Chalet in term time. Interested in the aside about Grizel Quote:
and another girl who just didn’t seem to go home
in the holidays at all. | |
| Author: | abbeybufo [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:55 pm ] |
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PaulineS wrote:
Interested in the aside about Grizel Quote:
and another girl who just didn’t seem to go home
in the holidays at all. I wasn't sure if that was Grizel or Juliet 
Thanks ADs - loved the first one too - no doubt you know Dorothy Parker's review [as 'Constant Reader'] of Winnie the Pooh which ended 'Tonstant Weader fwowed up'
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| Author: | Carolyn P [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:59 pm ] |
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abbeybufo wrote:
Thanks ADs - loved the first one too - no doubt
you know Dorothy Parker's review [as 'Constant Reader'] of Winnie the Pooh which ended 'Tonstant
Weader fwowed up' No, not come across it, do you have more info? The throwing up just seemed an appropriate ending! | |
| Author: | abbeybufo [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:17 pm ] |
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Carolyn P wrote:
abbeybufo wrote:
Thanks ADs - loved the first one too - no doubt
you know Dorothy Parker's review [as 'Constant Reader'] of Winnie the Pooh which ended 'Tonstant
Weader fwowed up' No, not come across it, do you have more info? The throwing up just seemed an appropriate ending! I seem to have known it 'for ever' - but it's mentioned here - the fifth quote down - DP was 'quite a lady' and I just love her attitude to life 
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| Author: | Advent Drabblers [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:29 pm ] |
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Journal of Cecilia Marya Humphries - just prior to entering her postulancy I don't remember Mamma, not really. I remember her voice, the way she would sing me to sleep each night, her soft hands. But I cannot remember her face. Oh I know her face - Papa had a picture of her holding me when I was just a baby - but I don't have any actual memory of her as a person. At the age of six I knew something was wrong - I have always appeared younger than I really was but, inside, I was old enough to know that things were wrong. Papa was so sad, so angry and Mamma had disappeared - it wasn't until the old priest came to the house that anyone even thought to tell me that Mamma had died. Of course they didn't phrase it like that - what they said was that Mamma had been called to Heaven - and I remember trying to call her back. The next few weeks were difficult, Papa was in tears most of the time but the type of tears that are only cried on the inside, everyone else remarked upon how well he was coping, keeping that 'stiff upper lip' while all I could see was a strong man weeping. It didn't help him that, every time he looked at me he saw her - and even at the age of six I could tell that it was destroying him anew each day. When he suddenly decided that he was going to take that post in Russia I wasn't surprised, he needed time, time away from me, away from a six year old baby whose every movement reminded him of his loss. I think looking back, had he not made that decision, he would have destroyed himself. Of course he explained things differently to me - that he would find someone who would love me and look after me while he was away. That I must never forget that Mamma loved me, and he loved me - I must always remember that. I cannot remember much about the next few days, only that each evening he would return more and more despondent, that he had been unsuccessful. Then, suddenly, he sounded happier. He told me he had been to see the headmistress of a school near Spartz, that she had turned out to be the daughter of a great friend of his - that I would be staying with her - he thanked God that he had found her. I remember being frightened, I remember asking Mamma if she would still look after me - and heard her tell me she would always be there - and that I would find great Love. I don't remember the journey to the Chalet School, I slept most of the way and only awoke the following morning. So many strange faces appeared that morning, yet all of them friendly, all of them welcoming. Of course I still felt sad about Mamma, still missed Papa - but Tante Marguerite and Joey, Juliet and Grizel all became my family that morning. And Mamma was correct - I did find Love. | |
| Author: | abbeybufo [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:43 pm ] |
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That was lovely ADs - thank you 
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| Author: | Vick [ Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:48 pm ] |
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Loved the Peter & Jane style story
Thanks ADs | |
| Author: | Alison H [ Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:47 am ] |
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Thank you - that was lovely. And she was much kinder about her father than he deserved! | |
| Author: | PaulineS [ Wed Dec 03, 2008 5:40 pm ] |
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Thank you ADs for the differing views on the Robin's introduction to the Chalet School. Quote:
PaulineS wrote:Interested in the aside about
Grizel Quote:and another girl who just didn’t seem to go home in the holidays at all. Abbeybufo wrote I wasn't sure if that was Grizel or Juliet Juliet was Madge's ward by this time, so I thought it must be Grizel. | |
| Author: | Smile :) [ Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:58 pm ] |
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Lovely, thanks 
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| Author: | Susan [ Thu Dec 04, 2008 12:38 am ] |
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Lovely stories Advent Drabblers. | |
| Author: | Kathy_S [ Sun Dec 07, 2008 12:50 am ] |
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Such diversity! lololol | |
| Author: | Fiona Mc [ Sun Dec 07, 2008 6:49 am ] |
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The first posting reminded me of all the Dick and Jane books I learnt to read with. Thanks
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| Author: | James [ Fri Jan 02, 2009 6:47 pm ] |
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abbeybufo wrote:
Thanks ADs - loved the first one too - no doubt
you know Dorothy Parker's review [as 'Constant Reader'] of Winnie the Pooh which ended 'Tonstant
Weader fwowed up' Just found this short story inspired by that review! http://www.atomicmartinis.com/pooh.htm | |
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