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Begins with a funeral and ends with a feast. Sorrow is drowned for this time at least. It fell out that there were two doll funerals the next day. Beth lost Ariminta, her composition doll, and she went down into the garden early to find her.
She looked in Bose's kennel, but it wasn't there; then she saw a robin in the path digging worms, and he looked so wise that she followed him to the early harvest apple-tree, and sure enough! there was Ariminta on a lower branch where she had put her the night before. She was very wet, for it had rained, and her wig was quite soaked off. So, filled with remorse, Beth went after the glue-pot.
In her haste to get back to prepare herself and family for the funeral, she forgot to tell Aunt Mandy, who was going to make cake, and so started a fire in the stove. When she opened the oven door to put in the cake, she took out Ariminta's remains, and that is why there were two subjects for a funeral instead of one. Beth was exceedingly sorry, and wept a few real tears over Ariminta.
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