She still felt the wonder of being rescued from the fire
AMANDA
A DAUGHTER OF THE MENNONITES
BY
ANNA BALMER MYERS
ILLUSTRATED BY
HELEN MASON GROSS
To My Sister
CONTENTS
- “While the Heart Beats Young”
- The Snitzing Party
- Boiling Apple Butter
- A visit to Martin’s Mother
- At Aunt Rebecca’s House
- School Days
- Amanda Reist, Teacher
- The Spelling Bee
- At the Market
- Pink Moccasins
- The Boarder
- Unhappy Days
- The Trouble Maker
- The county Superintendent’s Visit
- “Martin’s Girl”
- Aunt Rebecca’s Will
- Martin’s Dark Hour
- The Comforter
- Vindication
- Dinner at Landis’s
- Berrying
- On the Mountain Top
- Tests
- “You Saved the Wrong One”
- The heart of Millie
- “One Heart Made o’Two”
ILLUSTRATIONS
She Still Felt the Wonder of Being Rescued From the Fire
“What Did Lyman Tell You? I Must Know”
CHAPTER I
“While the Heart Beats Young”
The scorching heat of a midsummerday beat mercilessly upon the earth. Travelers onthe dusty roads, toilers in the fields, and othersexposed to the rays of the sun, thought yearninglyof cooling winds and running streams. They would havelooked with envy upon the scene being enacted in oneof the small streams of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.There a little red-haired girl, barefooted, her shortgingham skirt tucked up unevenly here and there, waswading in the cool, shallow waters of a creek thatwas tree-bordered and willow-arched. Her clear, ripplinglaughter of sheer joy broke through the Sabbaticalcalm of that quiet spot and echoed up and down themeadow as she splashed