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Show (Daddy's L4 Everviix Fairy Tale c?yAARY GRAHAM BOWES i ii taUXWl t WII1UM mwW UNssMi inn THE DOLL'S TRUNK Frobably Allie Baik, the rag doll, would never be Invited to go away on any trips where her mother waa not invited. But at the aame time It was very nice for her to have a trunk. She had been given the trunk, or rather It had been given to her mother for her, on her mother'! fifth birthday. It waa a beautiful trunk, atrong and of good size. It had a tray In It, too, and In the top there waa a little pocket In which could be put plcturea and pressed flow, era and other little odda and enda to be aaved curefully. Allla Baa would go away when her mother went away but at auch tlmea Allle'a things were packed with those of her mother's and they had always said an extra little trunk, such as AI-lle AI-lle now bad, was more useful at home. At home one kept all one's things. When one went away on visit or for a trip only a few things were taken along. Then Allie would never be Invited to go off by herself where she would have to take her own trunk. She couldn't travel alone or got nliing alone, even though she was so smart Of course as ehe was a rag doll It was hard to do a number of things, such as traveling alone. She couldn't walk without her mother's moth-er's help even though she was almost her mother's age. Nor would fclie ever be able to tell the conductor where she was going. Nor would she be able to ssk all the Important questions that Allle's She Could Keep All Hr Possessions, mother's mother asked when she went traveling. She used to say: "What time Is the train leaving?" And "How long does it take to get there?" And "Do we make ninny stops?" And "Is there a dlnlng-cur on the train?" And "Will I have time to get my little girl a glass of milk before the train starts, do you suppose?" And "Are there plenty of seats, do you know?" Of course It would not be neces sary for Allie to ask about getting her little girl a glass of milk as Allie didn't have a little girl she was a doll child and not a mother. She wasn't even a little girl-mother. Allie could, to be sure, hold her ticket tick-et In the pocket of her sailor blouse and the conductor could come along and take It out and punch It, Just as her mother had seen the conductor do to tickets sticking out of men's hats. They had gone on reading their papers pa-pers and their tickets had been punched Just the same. Rut still, even though In some ways Allie was capable of traveling alone, there were too many difficulties. So it was always best for Allie t travel with her mother and maybe It was best for Allie to pack her party clothes with those of her mother's and grandmother's. Tet It was useful for Allie to bavs a trunk. She could keep all her pos- sessions In It things which she wouldn't want to take traveling but which she would want to keep. Oh, there were so many of these, and some of them belonged to Allie and her mother together. There were the scrap books. In these there were many pictures of Allie Al-lie sitting alone nnd with the other dolls, being held by her mother, or pictures cut out which had looked something like Allie. And ttiere were poems and letters and valentines and Christmas cards In the scrap books. Oh, the trunk held so much I All the special treasures of Allie and of her mother It held. Wnnt more could be expected of a trunk? Even a trunk used for traveling travel-ing was not any more important than a trunk which was filled with dear, rag doll Allle's clothes, and her treasures treas-ures and those of her mother's I |