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He was very fond of his sister and the two had always been great chums, though frequently indulging in spirited quarrels. "What's this place like, anyway?" he inquired, as he sat on the edge of Dotty's bed and draped his long arm over the footboard. "You've got a jolly room all right," and he looked round admiringly at the pretty rose and grey effects. "Yes, isn't it lovely!
"We want to play, too!" his children cried excitedly. "Very well," answered the man. "Here are the names of the horses in the coming race: 1. Dotty's Trotter; 2. Sure Win; 3. Also Ran; 4. High Risk; 5. Looking Good; 6. Outside Chance; 7. King Alphonso." "I want to bet on Sure Win," the boy said eagerly. "There's nothing like the certainty of success."
And it's all my fault 'cause I made her go skating, and my arm hurts awful! Ow!" "Her arm is broken," said Mrs. Bayliss, gently lifting Dotty's right hand, which caused more piercing shrieks. "What shall we do? Somebody call a doctor quick!" Meanwhile the strong arms of a neighbour's gardener had lifted Dolly and was carrying her toward her own home.
"Oh, you Dotty Rose!" cried Jack Norris, as he caught Dotty's dancing black eyes, "I might have known you were at the head of this!" "No more than Dolly Fayre," cried Dotty, "and all the rest of us. Are you hungry, boys?" "Are we hungry? We should smile! We've been hungry all the while!" came in chorus from the famished tramps.
Then, with a clumsy pin, she made a voyage of discovery round and round in the soft flesh of Dotty's foot, never hitting the thorn, or coming anywhere near it. "O, dear!" said Jennie, petulantly; "we've wasted half an hour! What's the use for you to be always getting into trouble? A great many berries we shall have at this rate! and I was going to ask my mamma to let me have a party."
"How d'ye do?" said she, carelessly, to Dotty, and swept by her like a little ship under full sail. "Jennie Vance needn't talk so about her new mother," whispered Prudy, "for she gives her fifty-two new dresses, one for every Sunday." Dotty's brow darkened. Just now it seemed to her one of the greatest trials in the whole world that the dress she wore had been made over from one of Prudy's.
My mamma wouldn't let me go to the table with such hair as this. Prudy'd say 'twas 'harum scarum. But I can't brush it with a tooth-comb, 'thout any glass so there!" Dotty's curly hair looked quite as respectable as Mandoline's. Mrs. Rosenberg was far too busy to attend to her children's heads. They might be rough on the outside, and full of mischief inside; but she could not stop to inquire.
Each had a large rug of plain velvet carpeting; Dotty's rose pink and Dolly's moss green. Window curtains of Rajah silk fell over dainty white ones, and pretty light-shades of green and pink, respectively, gave the rooms a soft glow at night. Trudy contributed wonderful filet embroidered covers for dressing-tables and stands, and dainty white couch pillows, with monograms and ruffles.
"There was coal there, thrown in," said Dotty, with a quivering lip; "and I had to walk over it, and under it, and through it." "Was my little daughter afraid to come in by the door?" "I didn't know's you wanted me, papa. "I thought you'd say, 'What strange child is this?" Mr. Parlin, looking at the black streaks on Dotty's woeful face, found it very difficult to keep from laughing.
As the children left the chamber, uncertain what to do, but resolved that whichever "stood up," the other would sit down, Johnny seized a bottle of panacea which stood on the mantel, and wet the corner of Dotty's handkerchief. "There is some sirup worth having," said he; "stronger than yours. Rub it in your eyes, and see if it isn't."
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