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The Bramble Bush by Ch. Mergendahl
of As Fran in the Walker, one's of the nurses of the Mills Memorial has a Hospital, WAS sitting Between rounds behind HER duty-desk, she often the recollected HER childhood A, the which Would return statement to HER as with IT HAD existed in reality - a bewildering, lonely, and frustrating.
Her father, Mr. Walker, had owned a small lumber business in Sagamore, one of Indiana's numerous smaller towns, where Fran had lived in a large frame house on six acres of unused pasture land. The first Mrs. Walker had died, when Fran was still a baby, so she did not remember her real mother at all. She remembered her stepmother, though - small , tight-lipped, thin-faced, extremely possessive of her new husband and the new house which had suddenly become her own. Fran had adored her father, tried desperately to please him. And since he desired nothing more than a good relationship between his daughter and his second wife, she had made endless attempts to win over her new mother. But her displays of affection had not been returned. Stepmother HAD Remained Her Constantly jealous of, resentful, without the slightest Understanding of the small girl's Motives and emotions.
Fran in a losing Felt herself out, slipping away the Into The position an inferior. She began to exaggerate - often lie about friends, feelings, grades at school, anything possible to keep herself high in her father's esteem, and at the same time gain some small bit of admiration from her mother. The exaggerations, though, had constantly turned back on her, until eventually a disgusted Mrs. Walker had insisted she be sent away to a nearby summer camp. "They award a badge of honour there ," she had said, "and if you win it - not a single untruth all summer - then we'll know you've stopped lying and we'll do something very special for you."
"for We'll give you a pony," HAD HER father Promised.
Fran in wanted the pony. More than the pony, she wanted to prove herself. After two months of near-painful honesty , she finally won the badge of honour, and brought it home clutched tight in her fist, hidden in her pocket while she waited, waited, all the way from the station, all during the tea in the room-for the living the exact Proper Moment to the announcement of the make HER Glorious victory.
"the Well?" her mother had said finally. "The Well, Fran in?"
"The Well -", Fran in Began, with the excitement building Higher and Higher as with she to Drew Drew in HER breath and Thought of exactly how of to say The IT.
"You CAN not hide's the any longer a IT, Fran in". Her mother had sighed in hopeless resignation. "For We the know you DID not win's IT, SO there's Simply the no point in lying now! Just about IT."
Fran in HAD HER mouth closed. She'd stared at her mother, then stood and gone out to the yard and looked across the green meadow where the pony was going to graze. She had taken the green badge from her pocket, fingered it tenderly, then buried it beneath a rock in the garden. She had gone back into the house and said, "No, I did not win it," and her mother had said, "Well, at least you did not lie this time," and her father had held her while she ' d cried and known finally that there was no further use in trying. Her father had bought her an Irish setter as a consolation prize.
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