By: Ardis E. Parshall - December 19, 2014 From the Children’s Friend, December 1960 – Becky’s Present By Lucy Parr Becky shivered happily. She had always liked this sudden quiet at the end of the day when her father had finished his work at the grist mill. Now that the great water wheels had stopped their turning, she could hear the lowing of Sill Harper’s cows from clear across the valley. A dog barked. A woodpecker beat its sha...
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