She faced her mistress and looked her squarely in the eye.
"I'll tell ye, ma'am.

It's a game Miss Pollyanna's father learned her ter play.

She got a pair of crutches once in a missionary barrel when she was wantin' a doll; an' she cried, of course, like any child would.
It seems 'twas then her father told her that there wasn't ever anythin' but what there was somethin' about it that you could be glad about; an' that she could be glad about them crutches." "Glad for--CRUTCHES!" Miss Polly choked back a sob--she was thinking of the helpless little legs on the bed up-stairs.
"Yes'm.

That's what I said, an' Miss Pollyanna said that's what she said, too.

But he told her she COULD be glad--'cause she DIDN'T NEED 'EM." "Oh-h!" cried Miss Polly.
"And after that she said he made a regular game of it--findin' somethin' in everythin' ter be glad about.