Ashamed by her old fashioned doll, Hitty is stuffed under the cushions of a horsehair sofa in the attic, until her next owner, Clarissa, finds her years later and keeps her until she is shipped off to boarding school. Soon her new owner is sent to live in Philadelphia to live with her grandparents. Hitty loses touch with Phoebe after being dropped in a gutter in India and is picked up by a merchant, who sells her to a pair of Quaker missionaries for their little girl. After being around and belonging to various owners, Phoebe decides to pen her memoirs, which include being caught in a crow’s nest, being taken aboard a Captain Preble’s whaling vessel and being lost at sea after the craft catches fire, and taken by natives on a South Pacific island as an idol before being rescued by Phoebe’s brother. Hitty (short for Mehitabel) is a wooden doll carved for Phoebe Preble by a passing peddler from mountain ash which is said to be sturdy and brings good luck for those who possess her. Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
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