I've tried four houses, but--they didn't want me--though I said I expected ter work, 'course.

There! Is that all you want ter know ?" The boy's voice had broken a little over the last two sentences.
"Why, what a shame!" sympathized Pollyanna.

"And didn't there anybody want you?
O dear! I know just how you feel, because after--after my father died, too, there wasn't anybody but the Ladies' Aid for me, until Aunt Polly said she'd take--" Pollyanna stopped abruptly.

The dawning of a wonderful idea began to show in her face.
"Oh, I know just the place for you," she cried.

"Aunt Polly'll take you--I know she will! Didn't she take me?
And didn't she take Fluffy and Buffy, when they didn't have any one to love them, or any place to go ?--and they're only cats and dogs.