THE POPCORN SOCIETY 



LITTLE NANCY NODROG was one of seven 

 Nodrog girls and boys who lived many years ago 

 in a great big house in Reddale, Massachusetts, 

 not far from Boston. Nancy came in the mid- 

 dle of the family: Alicia, Bab, and Lizbeth 

 were older, Harry, Fritz and Arthur, younger 

 than Nancy, and she always said she was the 

 youngest girl and the oldest boy in the family. 



Late one winter afternoon when Jack Frost 

 was so frisky that Nancy was afraid her little 

 nose would get frozen if she stayed out of doors 

 to make snowballs, she and her next older sister, 

 Lizbeth, were sitting with their father by the 

 open grate fire in the big sitting-room. 



"Children," said their father, "I have bcen 

 thinking it would be nice to organize a Popcorn 

 Society. Mother and I will be captains. We 

 will pop corn at all our meetings and hold them 

 here around the sitting-room hearth. Minnie 

 and Mary and little Anna and Ellen Goodwin 

 over the way must belong. Children who are 

 members of the Popcorn Society ought to be 



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