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It was a merry meal; Peggy, having made up her mind to play dolls, did it thoroughly. She answered for the dolls in a different voice for each. Her namesake, Peggy Owen Carter, who sat beside her, ate so much her little mother had to reprove her. "My dear child, you mustn't be so greedy," said Diana. "I should think you had never tasted lamb stew before."

That the Dutchman lives in a country called Holland; that the people of that country are remarkable for being very clean, and that most of the dolls which little English girls play with, are made by children in Holland; that Amsterdam is the chief town or capital. The children are told that the Dane lives in a country called Denmark.

Gee! but I'd like to hear the rattle of the Lake Street 'L' and see the dolls coming down the station steps by Skidmore's when the crowd comes home from the Loop at night." Billy Byrne was homesick. And then, too, his heart was very heavy and sad because of the great love he had found a love which he realized was as hopeless as it was great.

She was followed by her brother John, a year or so younger than herself, not simply to play propriety at our interview, but to show his own two whips in emulation of his sister's dolls. I did my best to make myself agreeable to my visitors, showing much admiration for the dolls and dolls' dresses, and, with a very serious demeanour, asking many questions about their age and character.

Then he took them back and sat quite still and said, in that kind voice: "I know you are going abroad, and when you come back you will laugh at the dolls you played with when you were a child." But I cried, softly, though, because it was just as if I were alone, thinking things out and being sorry, sorry for myself and ashamed. Until now I'd never known how ashamed I was.

And when Colin, surprised at her patience went further and further, ending by tying a long mesh of her hair to the back of her chair, while she was busy fitting a frock on to one of the little dolls, and then, calling her suddenly, made her start up and really hurt herself, Beata was astonished at her patience.

If it is a shop we'll see the name. Just then there came out of a shop in front of them a baker's, I think it was a small figure which walked on slowly some paces before them. 'That's the little girl of the dolls' chairs, exclaimed Bridget. 'Shall I run on and ask her? I don't mind. 'You never do, said Alie, and indeed Biddy was most comfortably untroubled with shyness.

It's coming down a perfect torrent. Come back, Florence; we'll have to go inside," cried Dimple. And snatching up their dolls, they retreated into the house in no enviable state of mind, between fear of the tempest and alarm at being obliged to stay alone where they were. "We might as well make ourselves comfortable," Florence said at last. "Suppose we go down to the library or the dining-room.

Why, in Versailles every Princess has her own establishment when she is but ten years old and even her very dolls have their ladies-in-waiting! The only place which I may visit occasionally, and remain in unaccompanied, are those rooms over there, in the lower story of the palace. The King's private library, no doubt? No. A gallery of family portraits?

I've said it, I've said it, and that's enough to convince me, and I'll tell you more; if my Lord Chief Justice of England told it to me, I would not believe it that's poz! But how comes the box here, I wonder? Just. Pshaw! pshaw! pshaw! darling. Go to your dolls, darling, and don't be positive go to your dolls, and don't talk of what you don't understand.