Blue Wednesday

The first Wednesday of every month is a perfectly awful day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and forgotten with haste. Every floor must be spotless, every chain dustless, and every bed made without a wrinkle.Ninety- seven squirming little brats must be scrubbed and combed and buttoned into freshly starched clothes and all ninety - seven reminded of their manners.

It was a distressing time and poor Jerusha Abbott, being the oldest orphan, had to bear the brunt of it. But this particular first Wednesday, like its predecessors, finally dragged itself to a close.Jerusha escaped from the pantry, Where she had been making sandwiches for the guest and returned upstairs to accomplish her regular work. Her special care was room F , where eleven little tots, from four to seven, occupied eleven little cots set in a row Jerusha assembled her charges, straightened their rumpled frocks, wipe their noses and started them in an orderly and willing line towards the dining room to engage themselves for a blessed half hour with bread and milk.

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