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The Story of a Baby
Ethel Sybil Turner
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Inside the brooch was a cluster of little heads, gaudily painted, six in all; Dot, the seventh, had been born after it was done.
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Four of the heads pressed clay pillows in a
churchyard not very far away, seas washed
over the fifth, and the sixth lay in a lonely
grave in the wilds of Western Australia.
Dot was the only one alive, and now she had flown from the home-nest to one of her own, leaving unutterable desolation behind her in the mother’s heart.
It was because death had so broken and bruised this little frail mother that she had never crossed Dot’s will in anything since she was born. The days of insistence and control, and obedience-seeking were buried with the buried six. Dot ruled, and the mot. . . Read More
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