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Updated: May 13, 2025
"Doesn't he know it isn't time for dinner till Daddah comes home?" asked Mary Jane. "He doesn't pay much attention to time," laughed Mrs. Merrill, "he likes to eat all the day long. It makes no difference to him whether he eats in the morning or afternoon." Mary Jane watched him curiously as he pecked and dug and then she suddenly exclaimed, "But he didn't eat it, mother! I know he didn't eat it!
"'Deed I do," said Mary Jane happily, "and I like to go see my grandmother it's my Great-grandmother Hodges I'm going to see, you know. And my mother isn't going and my daddah isn't going because he works and my sister Alice isn't going because she's in school and anybody isn't going but just my Dr. Smith and me 'cause I'm five and that's a big girl."
Merrill. "I meant to tell you about it but was in such a hurry to get away I forgot." "Oh, did you see his nest?" exclaimed Mary Jane excitedly; "his really truly for sure nest, Daddah?" "That I did," replied her father, "and I'll show it to you." "Let's go now," cried Mary Jane. "Won't you please excuse us, mother?" And she slipped down from her chair.
"Too late now," said her father, "might as well climb back and finish your dinner. You can't find a bird's nest after dark and you can see that it's almost dark now. You wait till morning and I'll show you that nest first thing." "As soon as I'm dressed, Daddah?" asked Mary Jane. "Before you're dressed," promised her father, with a twinkle in his eye, "you just see!"
"That's what Daddah says when he wants me to work in my garden," said Mary Jane. "You don't tell me!" exclaimed Grandfather in great surprise. That was one of his favorite expressions, and Mary Jane had to always stop and think before she could realize that what he meant was, "You do tell me!" "And what do you say to him when he asks you that?"
Mary Jane didn't answer. She looked out at the robin, but someway, she couldn't quite take an interest in his affairs; she was too busy thinking about her own secret and how disappointed Daddah would be when he saw that old dress. And then, just as she was going to ask the time, she spied him coming around the corner. And she forgot all about dresses and remembered only the secret.
For a moment Mary Jane said nothing the doll was so like her dear, broken-to-pieces Marie Georgianna that she could hardly believe her eyes! She walked up close to the counter; looked hard at the doll and then exclaimed, "It is! It is, Daddah! It is a twin just as mother said it was! And is it for me to take home?" Mr.
The thing I'm thinking about is more fun if done by two anyway. But what do you want your money for, dear?" she asked the little girl. "I want it to get a present for my dear mother," said Mary Jane, "a present that she don't know anything about and that Daddah don't know anything about and that nobody gives me the money for. Can I really truly earn some money?" "Surely," replied Grandmother.
"Do you know any little girl who is big enough to run down to the grocery and get me some sugar?" she asked. "'Deed, yes, mother!" answered Mary Jane promptly, "I can bring you ten-fifty pounds! See how strong I am?" And she doubled up her arm as she had seen her big, basketball-playing sister do to show her muscle. "See? And I could move more beds at one time than Daddah could this morning."
"And will you mail my flowers?" asked Mary Jane. "As soon as they're ready," promised father. And so the picnic ended. "Well, what are we doing to-day?" asked Mr. Merrill as he finished his breakfast. "This is a fine enough day to be doing something big and important." "I'm just going to play around," said Mary Jane, "I'd like to do something big if you have it, Daddah," she added, encouragingly.
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