Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed

There are a number of things that are pleasanter than being sick in a New York boarding-house when one's nearest dearest is a married sister up in faraway Michigan. Some one must have been very kind, for there were doctors, and a blue-and-white striped nurse, and bottles and things. There was even a vase of perky carnations' scarlet ones. I discovered that they had a trick of nodding their heads, saucily. The discovery did not appear to surprise me. "Howdy-do!" said I aloud to the fattest and reddest carnation that overtopped all the rest. "How in the world did you get in here?"Ferber, Edna is the author of 'Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed', published 2004 under ISBN 9780809595488 and ISBN 0809595486.