Jean Webster 
Daddy-Long-Legs [EPUB ebook] 

pub One.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day- a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and forgotten with haste. Every floor must be spotless, every chair dustless, and every bed without a wrinkle. Ninety-seven squirming little orphans must be scrubbed and combed and buttoned into freshly starched ginghams; and all ninety-seven reminded of their manners, and told to say, ‘Yes, sir, ‘ ‘No, sir, ‘ whenever a Trustee spoke.