![]() ![]() The other girls fill their time with signing each other’s autograph books that Nellie sneers are out of date. I would think a fifteen year old boy might enjoy having two girls interested in him. Let’s recap – Cap probably thinks Mary won’t reject the candy or him and Nellie’ throwing herself at him. Laura wonders how Cap can look helpless and pleased at the same time. The next day, Nellie keeps him with her for the rest of recess when he tries to bring candy. Cap stands helplessly before walking out. How Sweet! Nellie intercepts and grabs the candy before he can offer it to Mary. Before Nellie can respond, Cap comes in with candy for Mary Power. Mary isn’t around so Laura tells Nellie what she thinks of that remark. Nellie points out that her family isn’t so poor that they need Nellie to teach. She only has a little over a year before she can take the teacher’s exam. Nellie works on her sewing while Laura studies. ![]() ![]() The older girls spend recess watching the boys play outside. The boys have come back to school, chief among them, cute, heroic (remember him, Almanzo and the wheat?) Cap Garland. Miss Wilder has left, and a good teacher has taken her place. They’ve seen each other, but for the first time in this chapter they have a chance to really speak, and forget blizzards, grasshoppers, etc, we have teenage angst as our main problem. If anyone saw the sign-ups, I pretty much begged for this chapter. ![]()
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