Life Of Harriet Beecher Stowe - 9781544643618

Then came the funeral. Henry was too little to go. I can see his golden curls and little black frock as he frolicked in the sun like a kitten, full of ignorant joy. I recollect the mourning dresses, the tears of the older children, the walking to the burial-ground, and somebody's speaking at the grave. Then all was closed, and we little ones, to whom it was so confused, asked where she was gone and would she never come back. "They told us at one time that she had been laid in the ground, and at another that she had gone to heaven. Thereupon Henry, putting the two things together, resolved to dig through the ground and go to heaven to find her; for being discovered under sister Catherine's window one morning digging with great zeal and earnestness, she called to him to know what he was doing.

• | Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Mar 25, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 376 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1544643616
• | ISBN-13: 9781544643618