Each story hangs on a proverb: Kitty’s class day at Harvard teaches that a stitch in time saves nine, Aunt Kipp proves that children and fools speak the truth, and a soldier on picket duty finds it is better late than never. Alcott also included The Baron’s Gloves as an example of the romantic rubbish that paid so well in her early career.
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