‘Hmm. Remarkable. Well, I don’t think you have anything to worry about. Let Fern associate with her friends in the barn if she wants to. I would say, offhand, that spiders and pigs were fully as interesting as Henry Fussy. Yet I predict that the day will come when even Henry will drop some chance remark that catches Fern’s attention. It’s amazing how children change from year to year. How’s Avery?’ he asked, opening his eyes wide. ‘Oh, Avery,’ chuckled Mrs Arable. ‘Avery is always fine. Of course, he gets into poison ivy and gets stung by wasps and bees and brings frogs and snakes home and
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Oh the irony worried about fern the girl with the amazing imagination vocab and compassion yet
Thinks the destructive boy she’s rearing is jus t fine
