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Author: Emily Carr

The Roarats

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

Mrs. Piddington twiddled the envelope. Her eyes upon my face warned me, “Don’t forget I am your boss!” “You are to call on the Roarats at once,” she said, and shook my sister’s letter in my face. “I don’t intend to call upon the Roarats, I hate them.” “Your…

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Evil

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

I was too busy at the Art School to pay much heed to Lyndhurst and Piddington affairs. Mrs. Piddington was watching me closely. Because she was English she called me “my dear” which did not in the least mean that I was dear to her nor she to me.

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Beany

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

Miss Beaner the little hunchback did not feel herself insignificant. She did not come up to any of our shoulders as she stood at her easel. She always picked the biggest images to draw from, preferably Venus. There she stood, her square little chin thrust out, her large feet…

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