Louisa M Alcott

An Old-Fashioned Girl Louisa M Alcott

"IT'S time to go to the station, Tom." "Come on, then." "Oh, I'm not going; it's too wet. Should n't have a crimp left if I went out such a day as this; and I want to look nice when Polly comes." "You don't expect me to go and bring home a strange girl alone, do you?" And Tom looked as much alarmed as if his sister had proposed to him to escort the wild woman of Australia. "Of course I do. It's your place to go and get her; and if you was n't a bear, you'd like it."