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Updated: May 15, 2025
"For pity's sake," said Norah, giving the little busybody a good-natured push. "What's going on in the parlor, Miss Dotty? You'd better run and see. If you should go in there and look out of the window, perhaps a monkey would come along with an organ." "No, he wouldn't, Norah, and if he did, Prudy'd let me know."
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.
"Seem's if I should freeze, but I don't s'pose she cares. I don't want any dinner. If Prudy'd bring me up a piece of pudding, I'd eat it; but she won't, nor pie either." By this time Dotty had nearly forgotten that all her misery was the result of her own misconduct.
"What a good little girl I am," thought she, "not to be a cryin'! Prudy'd cry! There goes the blacksmif's shop." Dotty meant the blacksmith. "His mother lets him go everywhere. Everybody's mother lets 'em go everywhere." A prettily dressed little girl passed the window. "How do you do, little girl?" whispered Dotty, in a voice so low that even the cat did not hear.
Then she suddenly remembered her promise to Prudy, not to go "anywhere near the water." "And I never thought I should. I never s'posed I should see Solly Rosenberg. I didn't know he was in this city. Prudy'd like it just as well as I do, if she was in here, and knew 'twas a wherry."
"I do think, just to myself though I wouldn't say it out loud that I'm as nice as anybody. I don't know what Prudy'd do 'thout me; and I guess Susy'd cry her eyes out!" "What you thinking about?" said Johnny. "O, 'bout a good many things! Let's run; it tires me to pieces to walk!" "Look!" cried Johnny, "there's Mandoline!" And such a pretty sight as bareheaded Mandoline presented!
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