Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
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Hitty is a doll, so a listener would be forgiven for assuming that this is a story written only for little girls. But Hitty's tale which spans a century, told from her perch in a New York antique shop, includes a hazardous journey on a whaling vessel, a stint as assistant to an Indian snake charmer, and, like Moses, abandonment in a basket on a muddy river. This is a story of adventure.She was carved in 1822 by an old peddler in a house in Maine as a present for seven-year-old Phoebe Preble. He fashioned a precious 6 1/2-inch piece of mountain-ash wood into a doll with pegs for her arms and legs and a painted face that wore a pleasant expression. The wood, the peddler explained, had special properties: it brought luck and had power against witchcraft and evil, qualities that reassured Hitty through many trying times. Little Phoebe painstakingly cross-stitched Hitty's name on her linen chemise which survives with her, and so she is called Hitty no matter whose hands she falls into.Sometimes dolls are lost- often children outgrow them. They can be boxed up and stored on a shelf for months or years or even buried in a hayloft. All this happens to Hitty but each time she is rediscovered, a new