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She can do all that they can do, and somethink they can't. There's an indiscrible grace about her, and Carlotty, my sweet Carlotty, she sets my art in flams. "Ow that Miss Hemly was noddin and winkin at me out of their box on the fourth tear? "What linx i's she must av. As if I could mount up there! "P.S. Talking of MOUNTING HUP! the St. Helena's walked up 4 per cent this very day." "2nd July.
Carlotty had huge feet, indeed, Carlotty "toed in," for that matter; but her face shone with delight; her eyes glistened, and so did her teeth; and when she waved her ebony hands and flitted among the children, she did it as airily as any real butterfly that ever danced over a field of clover blossoms. And if Patsy's joy was great in the play, it was greater still in the work that came afterward.
To see Carlotty Griggs "being a butterfly," with utter intensity of joy and singleness of purpose, was a sight to be remembered. For Carlotty was a pickaninny four years old, and blacker than the Ace of Spades!
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