• Hitty’s Cradle

    If you have been following the adventures of Flat Hitty in “Hitty’s First Adventure” and “Hitty and the Crows,” then you know that she endured some tough times in her first months with the Preble Family. During her first summer in Maine, Hitty spent weeks in a crow’s nest, being jostled by baby birds. After trying to escape, she got caught in the branches of the ancestral pine tree on the Preble farm. Although she was rescued, her clothes were in such a state of disarray that she ”was unable to be seen much in polite society.” So Captain Preble came to the rescue by building Hitty a “neat little…