| Show II When AUcIiu Putt Was a Little Girl I One day J was sitting on our front stoop with my big wax doll in my inns I was only allowed to have her to play wjth when I had been very I good indeed and she was the biggest most beautiful doll in the neighborhood 01 that I had ever seen even in shop windows f As I sat there Adelinaame e I toward me with her doll in her arms She stopped and said Show me your dolly I held her up and expatiated I upon her beauties I confess now thaI tha-I felt a keen and wicked satisfaction I that her doll had only a plaster head and I knew from sad experience that i was the kind that got grimy and had to be washed off with sweet oil occasionally and very often had a cracked head apd that she was altogether alto-gether of an inferior class from my dolly Shes pretty isnt she said Adelina Shes beautiful I said hugging my treasure for she was my very own child to me How much did she cost 7 said Adelina I dont lmowI said a lady sent her to me from London See her eyes open and shut and I gave a vigorous yank to the long wire which was concealed under un-der her petticoats Show me how her eyes go Adelina said And after opening and shutting those very inexpressive inex-pressive black eyes several times she handed her back to me and said I shall have one like her tonight Mown y M-own eyes opened wide at this and I said How will you get her Oh Ill lie down and kick she said and if Max dont give her to me quick Ill scream and theyll do anything if I scream And she nodded her head wisely I dont believe youll ever get her in this world said I confi dently and with a feeling of absolut certainty that the glory of my doll l could never be eclipsed When she went away I thought a good deal l about what she had said and won tIered very much how she got thinir < by being naughty for I knew that it i was the very way for me not to get them Katherine B Foot in the La dies Home Journal |
