| Show THE NEW CLOTHES Sherrie Ahlstrom Hundley 443 North 750 East Orem UT 84057 Professional Division First Place Short Story Mother smiled dress There as she put she said the last stitches on that ought to give changes for the school year if you re careful the you blue enough gave herbig hug Thanks mother said You make beautiful clothes think this one is my favorite held it up to myself and pranced around the parlor was so happy that she was allowing me to go away to school Ephrain wasnso far from Spring City but it was the big city as far as we girls were concerned was to finish my last year of high school there and if all went well might get to go back to Snow College the year after that When Hope and her mother came and asked ifcould go really didnthink Nother and Dad would agree but they did Being the only girl still at home was badly needed to help with things came home every day from school and cleaned the house did dishes and helped with the milking chores Mother and Dad were always very busy out at the fam This would begood change for me Though it was my first time away from home locked forward to it with great anticipation at Of course would misslot of things thathad enjoyed home Mother had always allowed us to have our friends therelot and we had especially had wonderful times out at the farm There glad of that were many memories to take with me and was Butwas glad to get away from all the work Even though we had moved back to town in the fall as we always did there was stillgreat deal of work to be done on the farn It would continue until winter set in There would be boxes and boxes of apples to pick and sort and then haul to the cellar under the granary for storage Grain had to be hauled and stacked Potatoes had to be dug withhand plow put in buckets and then in sacks Beans had to be picked and threshed Sometimes there were as many as twenty-five men to be fed at dimer wondered how mother would get along without me butwas excited about going and nothing would stop me from it now that she had consented 48 |
