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"Kiss it p'ease, and make it well," begged Lucy tearfully as she climbed on his knee; while the kitten, after looking nervously around, sought refuge in Master Sunshine's coat-pocket. "Lucy was dwessin' kitty in dollie's clothes, and it went 'spitz! and runned up her shoulder," wept Lucy. Master Sunshine kissed the smarting neck, and cuddled the pet in his arms.
Says he wants to see all the Andersons once more before he leaves town, and he knows it's his last chance; for John's forever at the tavern, and Bill Mead is monopolizing Bess at home; and you know, Star-face, how Clayton divides himself around among the Whatelys and Grays over at Red Range and a girl he's got up at Lawrence." "All this when I'm starving for one of Aunt Dollie's good lunches.
Is that the idea? 'More or less, said Mrs. Mallowe, with an unfathomable smile. 'But be sure he understands. Dribble-dribble trickle-trickle What a lot of raw dust! My dollie's had an accident And out came all the sawdust! Nursery Rhyme. So Mrs. Hauksbee, in 'The Foundry' which overlooks Simla Mall, sat at the feet of Mrs. Mallowe and gathered wisdom.
Their mother tried to explain all she knew about the tides, and when she had finished, Ethelwyn said: "I think it would be easier to remember to call it tied, and then untied." Dollie's poor mother is quite full of care, As she who lived in a shoe, For this child is tousled, this one undressed Mother has all she can do. More dollies there are, than possible clothes, Some of them must go to bed.
Straightening up, he held a small hood in his hand, such as children wear in cold weather. Faint as was the light, he recognized it as Dollie's; he had seen her wear it many times. "What can it mean?" he asked himself; "I must have stepped over or on that on my way down, but did not notice it. Yes, Dollie is on this side the stream, but where?" Aye, that was the question.
"No doubt, but we shall feel better to have her with us. She seems to be well, and we can bundle her up warmly. There may, after all, be serious results from this exposure, and it is best that we should have her where we can give her every care." And drawing the hood from his pocket he fixed it upon Dollie's head. She opened her eyes for a moment and mumbled something, but sank into sleep again.
Daisy was not to be detained at home, and before ten o'clock she was down on Broadway, and the dolly with the "shash" and "pairesol" which she had seen the day before under its glass case was hers for twenty-five dollars, and the plainer bit of china, who was to be dollie's mother and perform the parental duty of "panking her when she was naughty," was also purchased, and the dishes and the table and stove and bedstead, with ruffled sheets and pillow-cases and blue satin spread and the washboard and clothes bars and tiny wringer, with divers others toys, were bought with a disregard of expense which made Miss McDonald a wonder to those who waited on her.
'You had better stay here till things are quieter outside, for the stones and bullets strike just anybody at random, and make no difference between big and little. I will tell you when it is safe for you to go; stay here till I come back. As Roller turned to go, he felt his leg suddenly clasped in Dollie's little arms. 'Oh, do stay here with us, dear father! sobbed the child.
"Buzzer will slap kitty for biting sister wiz its finder nails," she begged. "Brother will show sister how to be kind to kitty," he answered, as he drew the trembling ball of fur from its hiding-place, and stroked it with a tender hand. "Spry is not a dolly, and does not like to wear dollie's clothes.
Dollie's tears dried up with wonderful quickness when she saw the shining silver really lying on her little palm, and she skipped merrily away to the town without either basket or wood. While Hillner and Rudorf went quietly back to their work, Jüchziger kept a watchful eye on the former.
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