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"Grandma why, grandma'll read the Bible. And O, such a time! "That Angeline girl will remember how she rocked that darling Dotty, and told me stories." Dotty was seized with a sudden shivering. The stories came back to her mind vividly.
"If they don't treat you good, dearie, you come right back here and Grandma'll take good care of you," said she, and Evelyn and Marguerite, eying Julia over their cups of tea, nodded half pityingly. They thought it a very poor job that did not permit one to come home to this kitchen at night, even less desirable than their own despised employments.
"What an idea!" exclaimed Grace. "I've seen little beggar children drawing a dog-cart. Grandma'll never allow such a thing." "Indeed I will," said grandma, tying on her checked apron. "Dog-carts or wheel-barrows, so they only take care not to be rude. In a city it is different."
"O, Susy, what a hubble-bubble we make in the water! Look at the bubbles winkin' their eyes! See those pretty wrinkles, all puckered up in the water!" "I see them," said Susy, steadily plying her shingle; "but why don't you sit still? You'll tip us both over, as sure as this world; and if we get drowned I guess grandma'll scold! I shall be the one to have all the blame."
I'm ever so much obliged to you fer all your kindness, and now you'd better run along home or your grandma'll be worried. You're mighty good children, and I'm glad to have that room swep' up; it must be a weight off en Ella's mind."
"Oh, I know," said she, "God has doubled it up." She had changed her mind, and did not want to go to her grandmother's. "Mr. Pratt fought I was bare-headed, and grandma'll fink I'm bare-headed. Guess I won't go to g'andma's, kitty, I'll go to preach-man's house; preach-man will want to see you." On she went till she came to the church. Then she sat down on the big steps, dreadfully tired.
This house is goin' to be a pretty lonesome place, I cal'late. Your grandma'll miss you dreadful and so will I, but but I have a notion that your grandpa's goin' to miss you more'n anybody else." He shook his head. "Oh, not as much as all that, Rachel," he said.
"You go in and behave as beautifully as ever you can, and your grandma'll be so busy talking, she'll say yes before she thinks. That's the way my mamma does. Say 'Crossman's orchard, remember, but don't tell which one." So Jennie staid outside while Dotty entered the parlor softly, and stood by her grandmother's chair, waiting the proper time to speak. "Strawberrying, did you say?" asked Mrs.
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