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Alissa is reading. Her father calls to her.
‘Alissa! Alissa!’
Alissa runs to the door. There is a car
outside the house. Her father is talking
to a fat man. I
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‘This is Alissa. She reads all day,’ her I
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‘ Alissa,’ her father says. ‘My friend has
work for you in the city. There isn’t any *
work here in the village. You must go
with him.’
Alissa and the fat man arrive in the city.
They drive to a house. A thin man
comes to the door. The two men talk.
‘Here is your room,’ the thin man says
to Alissa. He points to a door under the
steps.
Alissa goes into the room. The room is
small and dark. It is her new home.
The next morning, the thin man takes
Alissa into the house.
‘This is Alissa,’ the man says to his wife.
‘She likes reading.’ They laugh.
Suddenly the woman shouts at Alissa.
‘You aren’t going to read here,’ she
shouts. ‘You’re going to cook and clean
and wash.’
Alissa works fifteen hours a day. The
woman shouts at her every day. Alissa is
very unhappy. She cries every night.
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Each month, the shop owner gives the
girls a little money. Alissa buys a book
with her money. She reads the book
after lunch.
The shop owner is surprised. The other
girls can’t read.
‘Can you write? Can you count?’ the
shop owner asks.
‘Yes, I can,’ Alissa says.
tCome,’ the shop owner says. ‘You are
going to work in the shop.’
Alissa likes working in the shop. She
serves the customers. The customers are
rich ladies. They buy expensive dresses.
One of the customers is a tall and pretty
lady. She always smiles at Alissa. She
gives Alissa small presents.
One day, the tall lady leaves her purse
in the shop. Alissa runs out into the
street. She runs after the lady.
‘Here is your purse,’ Alissa says. The
lady smiles. She takes some money from
the purse.
‘Thank you,’ she says to Alissa. ‘You
are an honest girl. Take this money.’
‘No, no,’ says Alissa. ‘I don’t want your
money.’
She runs back to the shop. The shop
owner shouts at her.
‘Don’t leave the shop again!’ she
I shouts. ‘I pay you a lot of money. I pay
you to work. I don’t pay you to run out
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Alissa is angry.
‘You don’t pay me a lot of money,’ she
shouts. ‘I’m a slave here.’
‘You’re an ungrateful girl,’ the large
woman says. ‘You have a bed and food
and money. Do you want more?’
‘Yes, I do,’ Alissa says. She is crying
now.
‘Wait,’ a quiet voice says. The tall lady
is standing at the door.
‘Alissa isn’t ungrateful,’ the tall lady
says. ‘She is an honest girl.’
The tall lady speaks to Alissa.
‘Aren’t you happy here?’ she asks.
‘What do you want?’
Alissa says, ‘I want to go to school ’
The tall lady turns to the shop owner.
‘Alissa will live in my house,’ she says.
‘She won’t work. She will go to school.’
‘You must pay me,’ the shop owner
says.
‘N o,’ the tall lady says, ‘Alissa isn’t a
slave.’
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‘Pack your things, Alissa,’ she says. ‘We
will go home now.’
Alissa goes with the tall lady. She is
going to a new home. She is going to be
happy.
