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Sometimes she cried out that "the crazy man was coming with a axe." When grandma saw her purple cheeks by daylight she did not laugh at aunt Madge. She brushed the soft curls away from the little one's hot temples, and said softly, "How do you feel, Prudy, darling?" A wild light burned in the child's eyes. "It isn't Prudy!" screamed she, "I ain't her! Go 'way! You're goin' to snip off my nose!
"Uncle John is going, all his wife and children," said Prudy; "and I don't see why Dotty can't." Uncle John was Aunt Martha's husband, and "all his wife and children" meant only Aunt Martha and Lonnie.
"O, grandma," cried Prudy, "you know we had a ticket come a-purpose!" "I'm ashamed," said Grace, promptly. "Susy, you and I are too big to act so. Let's go and do up our work right nice, and then see if we can't help grandma." And off went the two little girls, with beaming faces, trying to make themselves useful.
"O, what a little snail! Hurry can't you?" said Susy, impatiently; "Norah'll be gone! What's the use of our waking up in the night if we can't say Merry Christmas to anybody?" "Well, ain't I a-hurryin' now?" exclaimed Prudy, plunging forward and falling, chair and all, the whole length of the stairs. All the house was awake now, for Prudy screamed lustily.
Parlin had said against it, his little daughter was called by various pet names, such as Midge, and Ladybird, and Forget-me-not. Very few were the people who seemed to remember that her name was Alice. She had a pair of busy dimples, which were a constant delight to her sisters. "They twinkle, twinkle like little stars, only they don't shine," cried Prudy.
"Yes, I are," replied Dotty, well pleased to be asked such a question. "I got 'most drowned, you know. O, I wish you'd stayed out in the rain the other day, and got cold; then you'd have been sick, too." Prudy smiled, for she knew that her little sister really had no such unkind wish at heart. She was only trying, with her limited stock of words, to say that she longed to have a little sympathy.
"Any bill of fare?" asked Dotty, with a sudden recollection of past grandeur. "A bill of fare? O, no; those are for hotels. But there's almost everything else. Now you can go up stairs with me, and wash your face." Dotty appeared at table with smooth hair and a fresh ruffle which Prudy had basted in the neck of her dress.
"Why," cried Susy, "how foo ;" but catching Prudy's eye, she added, "you may as well be Young Beauty; Flossy wouldn't mind. But now I think of it, Prudy, we can't play school, for girls don't go to school in India." "Make believe you are boys, then," observed Johnny, whose interest in the game had flagged since he knew that Hindoos were not sharks.
I always thought you were a good girl, Dotty, but now I am afraid you tell false fibs!" Dotty clung about Prudy like a sweet pea, and peeped into her eyes with a pleading look. "Say, do you love me, Prudy? For I'm goin' to let the oil slip right down my throat, just as my papa did when he was a little boy."
"Poor little creeter!" cried Grace, rolling up her eyes, "how she must suffer! I hope she's out of her head. Does she have her senses, ma'am?" "Her what?" said Prudy. "O, yes'm, she's got 'em. I laid 'em up on the shelf, to keep 'em for her." Here the two visitors turned away their heads to laugh. "What do you s'pose my present will be?" said Prudy, forgetting their play.
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