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Updated: May 11, 2025
Then the small breeches were so evidently mother-made, the tiny bits of legs surmounted with such an enormous breadth of seat, the wee Dutch-looking blue jacket, and the queer blue cap on top of the flaxen curls, gave the little creature the appearance of a Dutch doll.
Teams of big horses and wagons and scores of men, worked busily upon its frozen surface, sawing and cutting and packing ice in the big wooden houses along the banks. Always there was enough wind for an ice-boat or a skate-sail, or to send a fellow swiftly along when mother-made promises were forgotten and an unbuttoned coat was held outstretched to catch the breeze.
The little girl now wore a pretty lace-trimmed bonnet mother-made, one knew at once, and a little white cape. She was a very charming and quaint figure. "I think, daddy," she said, "I'd like to go home right away and see the little girl's mother." He turned his head away again for a moment, but he managed at last to meet his little daughter's eyes with a smile. "Run along, sweet," he said.
While she is awake her hands are never idle, and their most important work is that of slowly building up the manhood of America. Ours is to be largely a mother-made land. "'Mon Dieu! I should think she would be cross with so much to do, said the Princess. "'Often she is a little cross, Franklin answered.
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