Conkiajgharuna The Little Rag Girl by Marjory Wardrop––––––––
There was and there was not. There was a miserable peasant who had a wife and a little daughter. So poor was this peasant that his daughter was called Conkiajgharuna (‘Little Rag Girl’).
Some time passed, and his wife died. He was unhappy before, but now a greater misfortune had befallen him. He grieved and grieved, and at last he said to himself, "I will go and take another wife; she will mind the house, and tend my orphan child." So he arose and took a second wife, but this wife brought with her a daughter of her own. When this woman came into her husband's house and saw his child, she was angry in heart.
She treated Little Rag Girl badly. She petted her own daughter, but scolded her stepdaughter, and tried to get rid of he
