Grandmas Attic Sample
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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grandma's addict series. Book one by our leader Richardson. Chapter One. Pride Goes Before a fall grandma. What is this grandma looked up from her work. Good Lance child. Where did you find that in the attic? I replied. What is it grandma grandma chuckled and answered. That's a hoop. The kind that ladies wore under their skirts when I was a little girl. Did you ever wear one grandma? I asked grandma laughed. Indeed, I did, she said. In fact I wore that very one here, I decided must be a story. I pulled up the footstool and prepared to listen grandma looked at the old hoop fondly. I only wore it once, she began, but I kept it to remind me how painful pride can be. I was about eight years old when that hoop came into my life for months I have been begging ma to let me have a hoop skirt like the big girls wore. Of course that was out of the question. What would a little girl not even out of calico's be doing with the hoop skirt? Nevertheless I could envision myself walking haughtily to school with a hoop skirt and all the girls watching enviously as I took my seat in front of the room. This dream was shared by my best friend and seat mate, sarah jane together. We spent many hours picturing ourselves as fashionable young ladies and ruffles and petticoats. But try as we would. We could not come up with a single plan for getting a hoop skirt of our very own. Finally, one day in early spring Sarah jane met me at the school grounds with exciting news. An older cousin had come to their house to visit and she had two old hoops that she didn't want any longer. Sarah jane and I could have them to play with. She said play with. Indeed! Little did that cousin know that we didn't want to play with them. Here was the answer to our dreams all day under cover of our books. Sarah jane and I planned how we would wear these hoops to church On sunday there was a small problem. How would I get that hoop into the house without ma knowing about it and how could either of us get out of the house with them on without anyone seeing us. It was finally decided that I would stop by Sarah jane's house on sunday morning we would have some excuse for walking to church. And after her family had left we would put on our hoops and prepared to make a grand entrance at the church. Be sure to wear your full skirt, Sarah jane reminded me and be here early. They're all sure to look at us this sunday if we had only known how true that would be. But of course we were happily unaware of the disaster that lay ahead. Sunday morning came at last and I astonished my family by the speed with which I finished my chores and was ready to leave for church. I'm going with Sarah jane this morning, I announced and set out quickly before anyone could protest. All went according to plan, Sarah jane's family went on in the buggy, cautioning us to hurry and not be late for service. We did have a bit of trouble fastening the hoops around our waists and getting our skirts pulled down to cover them, but when we were finally ready, we agree that there could not be to finer looking young ladies in the county than us.