A Merry Christmas (2014)
“All had cropped heads, all wore brown gowns with blue aprons, and all were orphans like herself. Some were pretty and some plain, some rosy and gay, some pale and feeble, but all seemed to be happy and having a good time in spite of many hardships.
More than once, one of the girls nodded and beckoned to Patty, but she shook her head decidedly and continued to stand listlessly watching and thinking to herself with a child’s impatient spirit— Oh, if someone would only come and take me away! I’m so tired of living here, and I don’t think I can bear it much longer.
Poor Patty might well wish for a change; she had been in the orphanage ever since she could remember. And though everyone was very kind to her, she was heartily tired of the place and longed to find a home.
At the orphanage, the children were taught and cared for until they were old enough to help themselves, then they were adopted or went to work as servants.
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