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When he came again you got another doll a store doll; but I think your child-heart clung to the corn-baby with the handkerchief dress.
But also Grandpa always had some one else with him now some one who comforted his old heart greatly. This was Letitia. Grandpa had always shown much fondness for the old doll. And one day soon after Cis received the new one when Johnnie chanced to give Letitia into the hands of the old man, the latter was so happy that Johnnie had not taken Letitia away, and Cis had not.
"Miranda!" she exclaimed. "It is old Miranda! I have not thought of her for years." She held the doll at arm's length, gazing fixedly at her for some minutes. "I cannot burn her," she muttered at last. "It would seem almost like murder. I don't like to throw her away, but I have vowed to get rid of these things to-night. And I'll do it, anyway. Yes, I'll make an experiment of her.
"It is with singular feelings that I write to you as a woman, my child, and appeal to thoughts and sentiments, of which you are at this moment so utterly unconscious; sitting, as you now are, at my feet, amid your playthings, too busy with a doll, to notice the tears that fall upon these last lines I shall ever have it in my power to address to you.
"But you mustn't try it!" cautioned his aunt. "You might fall in, and Snap couldn't rescue you as easily as he did Snoop or the doll." As the houseboat went slowly around a bend in the creek, Nan, who stood in front, near her father, suddenly uttered a cry, and pointed toward shore. "What is it?" asked Mr. Bobbsey. "There's that boy Will Watson!" spoke Nan.
Jane then ran for her hat, and, in great joy, took her doll, and went in the lime walk. There was a seat in this walk; and here Jane would oft spend two or three hours in the cool shade of the trees. On this seat she sat down now, and, when she had been some time, she thought she would fix her doll on a branch of a tree.
The little lady must have thought the matter out very carefully, for she had sent to each exactly what they wanted. For Margery there was a doll, fully dressed, even to the little laced boots that could be taken off and laced on again. For Tom there was a fine big book with pictures of shipwrecks and fights and wonderful adventures.
"Besides, it will soon be too cool to go out in the woods. In a little while we will have ice and snow, and Thanksgiving and Christmas." "That will be better than picnics," said Freddie. "I'm going to have a new sled." "I'm going to get a new doll, that can walk," declared Flossie, and then she and the others talked about the coming holidays.
Before I could answer, the door came softly open, and there stood in the doorway a small white figure, holding aloft a lighted taper of pure alabaster. It was Marian in her little night-dress, with the loose blue wrapper trailing behind her, let go in the effort to hold carefully the doll, Susan Halliday, robed also for the night. "May I come in?" said the child.
That was a time! The little daughter of the house made a doll of me, laid me in the cradle, and made me shut my eyes and pretend to sleep, while love and hatred, and great projects were strong within me.
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