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JANE LENDS A HAND
At six o'clock Jane had awakened, and, lifting her tousled head from her pillow, sniffed the frosty air.
The red sunlight of an October morning was sending its first ruddy beams into the bare little room, but notwithstanding this sign that the morning was advancing, and the fact that all the children had had their first summons to get up and dress, Jane, this lazy Jane, merely burrowed down deeper into her warm nest, and buried her round nose in the patchwork quilt.
Among Mr. Lambert's pet aversions were Unpunctuality and Laziness, and no one had better reason to know this than Jane. Nevertheless, she infringed upon the iron-bound rules of the household every day of her life, and cheerfully paid her penalties with a sort of serene stoicism. She had inherited from her placid, happy-tempered mother a vigorous dislike of physical discomfort, and a calm way of doing what she wanted, and then good-naturedly paying the piper as circumstances demanded.
In the adjoining room, the twins, Wilhelmine and Lottie could be heard chattering and laughing in their fresh, sweet voices. Shivering, but rosy and wide-awake, the two little girls were dressed in their warm woolen frocks inside of ten minutes. Since they were six years old, Mr. Lambert had permitted no one to help them but themselves; and so, with their little cold red fingers they buttoned each other's dress and plaited each other's smooth, shining yellow hair; then set to work making up their wooden beds, sweeping, dusting, and putting their room to rights.
At half-past six came the summons to breakfast, which had already been announced by appetizing odors of porridge and frying bacon.
Little Minie, running past her sister's door, glanced in, and stood transfixed with horror at the sight of Jane rolled up like a dormouse, and still dozing peacefully.
A head covered with curly, reddish hair rose above the mountain of bed-clothes; a pair of sleepy eyes blinked at the little girl.
"Um." A yawn. "What time is it?"
"I've got a--a headache," announced Jane unblushingly, "I don't think I'll go to school to-day."
"O-oh, Jane!" remonstrated the twins in chorus.
"Ooooh, Jane!" The twins covered their rosy mouths with their hands, and tittered.
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