My story book - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Chapter 1

Rebecca was a ten- year girl with intelligence, spirit and most imagination. She lived on a farm, its name Sunnybrook farm. There was a brook- a special brook nearly her farm. It had a sandy bottom with lots of shiny pebbles. Whenever the sun shined, the brook caught its ray and sparkles.
She is the second of seven children. Her father died when her mother was giving to their 7 th child. So her mother had her hands full running the farm. Her older sister and her had been taking care of babies for years.
Her aunt- Miranda Sawyer, who lived in brick house in Riverboco, would bring up a child of them.
One warm day in May, her mother put her on a stagecoach which belonged to Mr Cobb a half an hour earlier along with her struck, a pink parasol, a large bunch of lilacs. Her mother requested Mr Cobb to keep an eye on her and reminded her not to get into any mischief.
Rebecca loved her family so much. She did not like to leave her home and going to her aunt was going down in the cellar in the dark.
When she was not far Riverboo suddenly she stiffened in her seat- she was nervous about coming to live with Aunt Miranda and Aunt Jane.
Mr Cobb curiously asked if she would go back and she said that she would never go back. Beneath her calico dress, her heart beat wildly. Tears swam in her eyes. Her new life was about to begin.

Chapter 2
An Icy Welcome
Rebecca went to Riverboo about 12 o'clock a.m. Her aunt was waiting anxiously. She said eagerly "hello", stepping forward to preset her aunts with her bouquet of lilacs.
Miranda said that she had not bothered to bring flowers which were full in the garden. Despite of the fact that, Aunt Jane stepped up and hugged her warmly.
Rebecca' s room was upstairs. It was a nice room and much more comfortable than her room but she felt uneasy. Overwhelmed by feelings of anxiety, she yanked the bedspead down, jumped into the bed and pulled the spread over her head. Suddently, Miranda appeared and shouted at the top of her lung what she were doing in the bed with her dust boots.
She apologised her aunt, explained that something had come over her and she did not know what. Miranda asked her to spread her bed up. At once, she got right up and made her bed neat. However, she did so with a heavy heart. She missed her warn, loving family in Sunnybrook Farm.
On Saturday afternoon after church, she sat down at the pine desk in her room and wrote her first letters home.
She said to her mother about how she feft in Riverboco: the house, the parlor, the furniture..
Everything she did irritates Miranda. She wished Hannad- her older sister had come instead of her. She missed her mother very much.

Chapter 3.

Rebecca went to school in Riverboco Center. She loved her studies and enjoyed her classmates, particularly Emma Jane, who lived near her.
Every Friday afteroon, Mrs Dearborn, her teacher, requested her pupils to give recital of songs, poems, and speeches for an audience of parents and young brothers and sisters. But they hated this event.
However, an amazing thing happened when Rebecca arrived on the scene. She loved these Friday recitals and participated so whole- heartely. Her classmates were reciting their pieces with zeal, and enjoying themselves.
Miss Dearborn decided to invite a group of community leaders to attend Friday afternoon performance.
Rebecca put on the pretty pink dress. She was beautiful as a picture. She wore that dress without asking Miranda. She was in the center of the stage, her voice soared above all the rest in the chorus. All eyes were upon her and the crowd clapped willy. She walked home happy and proud.

Chapter 4

When Rebecca stood at the bottom of the front of stairs, Miranda shouted at her niece. She asked why Rebecca had wore the dress without asking permission, why she had used the front of stairs, why she had left the screen in her bedroom open, and house was full of flies, what happen if somebody came in and stolen what he liked, why she trutted home with all the airs and graces your fancy, useless father.b
Rebecca was very angry, and she said Rebecc father was a vain, foolish, shiftlessman.
Rebecca relpied that she had intended to ask the dress but Miranda were not at home, she apologised what she had done but Miranda could not insult her father.
Rebbeca run to her room. For a long while she sat by the window and watch the light. She hoped Miranda would be pleased that the niece but nothing. The only thing she wanted was to go home and let Mother send Hannad to Riverboro in her place.
She wrapped some clothes in a bundle, and stepped down. She run as fast as her legs would carry her down the road that led out of Riverboco.