Children's Historical, Short Story. Pioneer child is tasked to fetch embers to restart cookfire in winter. Possible collection may contain "The New Food" (Leacock) and "All Summer in A Day" (Bradbury). Read around early 1970s.

[Orsurbo]

A short story about life in pioneer times, set in winter, a cook fire is allowed to extinguish with no means to reignite it, and a child is equipped with a metal lidded pan and tasked to go to another homestead and return with embers.

It may well have been in a collection of stories I read in elementary school in the early 1970s. The collection possible contained "The New Food" (Leacock) and "All Summer In A Day" (Bradbury) as well. Thanks!

[Kris]

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[Rainbowheart]

The Time of Your Life: An Anthology of Short Stories?

Some of the contents according to Worldcat....

The man at the house / Frank O'Connor --
A manly heart / Hugh Garner --
All summer in a day / Ray Bradbury --
The bells / Mary Quayle Innis --
Strawberry ice cream soda / Irwin Shaw --
Spoil the child / Howard Fast --
The men in the bowler hats / Angus Wilson --
The Bars and the bridge / Ernest Buckler --
The golden jubilee citizen / W.O. Mitchell --
Sixteen / Maureen Daly --
Extraordinary little cough / Dylan Thomas --
That's what happened to me / Michael Fessier --
Thre was a young lady of Perth / William Saroyan --
The white pony / Morley Callaghan --
His first flight / Liam O'Flaherty --
Through the tunnel / Doris Lessing.