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Then one day Emily came rushing home from school all out of breath , her eyes as bright as stars , and her cheeks like roses . `` Mrs. Barlow came to our school to-day and talked to the teacher , and I heard her say she was going away for the winter . She 's going to store her goods in the Service Company barn , but she wants to get somebody to take care of her piano . I stepped right up and told her my mother was looking for a piano , and we 'd be real careful of it , and she 's just delighted ; and -- it 's coming to-morrow morning at nine o'clock ! The man 's going to bring it ! '' She gasped it out so incoherently that they had to make her tell it over twice to get any sense out of it ; but when Bob finally understood he caught his little sister in his arms and hugged her with a big smacking kiss : `` You sure are a little peach , Em ` ly ! '' he shouted .