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Quiet little Stella was especially fond of getting letters and would have liked to receive them three times a day. The elder members of the three families often sent letters or gifts to the children, and it was not at all unusual to find picture postcards or little boxes of candy, which unmistakably came from the generous hand of Uncle Steve.
"What do you mean by that?" demanded the little ruffian, as he placed himself in front of her, and thus prevented her further progress. "Don't stop me; I'm in a hurry," said Katy. "Gi' me some candy, then." "No, I won't!" answered Katy, losing her patience. "Won't you?"
Carew, "and I am glad they are to be friends." They all walked down the slope with him, and watched him striding off along the rough path. "He's going to fetch me some rock-candy," said Esther as they turned back to the house. Mrs. Carew stopped at the mill, and the two little girls went back to the house. "We'll make the maple candy now, shan't we?" said Esther, as they reached the kitchen door.
Poor little Toby! his heart seemed ready to break; but his few hours' previous experience had taught him that there was but one thing to do, and that was to work just as hard as possible, trusting to some good fortune to enable him to get out of the very disagreeable position in which he had voluntarily placed himself. He took the basket of candy that Mr.
He cried out, "How do you do, sir! How do you do, sir!" All this time Snubby Nose sat up in his pink wrapper drinking tea out of a pink cup and eating pink wintergreen candy. By and by Susan said, "Doctor Cotton-Tail you were going to tell us where you were going to call when you came here!" Doctor Cotton-Tail said, "I was on my way to call on little Tippy Toes!"
But they had happened to see the Candy Rabbit, and had taken him. Boys are sometimes like that, you know. How long Herbert, Dick and Arnold might have let the Candy Rabbit sail about on the end of the kite tail I cannot say, but when the three chums had been having this fun for about half an hour, all of a sudden Madeline and her two friends, Mirabell and Dorothy, came running across the field.
"When the twins reached the store, there were several customers ahead of them; so they had to wait their turn. It was nearing supper time when they came out of the store with their bundles. The rude boys had waited outside for them all that time; and the twins gave them some of their candy. "When Daisy and Dan reached home, they were much surprised to find a visitor there.
Miss Dowse had rejected the proffered stick of candy, and Mercedes sought a chance to give hers away, one end unsucked. There was this boy in the party, Harleston Bowdoin, so she made a favor of it and gave it to him. They were playing on the rail of the steamboat, and Jamie was sitting respectfully apart inside.
Where did Al Cloud get that line of talk he was handing out, anyway? Why, he talked about God as if He were an intimate friend of his, and spoke of prayer and Bible reading in the way common, ordinary people talked of going to breakfast or eating candy, as if they were necessary and pleasurable acts. Why, it was inconceivable! What was he doing it for? There must be a reason.
On her head was a funny little cap, ending in a point, like the cap a dunce wears in school in the story books, and as the Candy Rabbit hopped nearer this Glass Doll the sweet smell of perfume became stronger. "Where is all the nice smell?" asked the Candy Rabbit. "I am it," answered the Glass Doll. "I am made hollow, and inside I am filled with perfume.
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