Mrs. Poe

Authors: Lynn Cullen

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“Poe EighteenThe next morning, Mary led the children out the front gate and onto the sidewalk.“Do you have the bouquet for your teacher?” I called from the doorstep. I had cut the flowers that had been beaten down by the storm the previous evening and, except for the foxgloves—their association with Mrs. Poe disturbed me—wrapped them in a damp cloth. Now Ellen held them up as she joined her sister and Anna Bartlett in a pinafore parade down the sidewalk. I withdrew into the house, smiling in spi...te of the sore spot lingering in my heart.A shout came from downstairs, followed by a thud and the sound of hurried footsteps. I heard the back door being flung open and banged closed.The second girl, Martha, struggled up the stairs with a bucket.“Is everything all right?” I asked.She put the bucket on the floor with little splash. “A rat, ma’am. We got it.”“That must be a relief.”“Croton bugs is the real devil, ma’am. The cupboards is crawlin’ with them. We put saucers of water under the legs of the pie safe to keep ’em from crawlin’ up, but it don’t do much good.”“A nuisance,”MoreLess Read More Read Less