"The infant was so cross I could not play one bit the whole four months,"she said at length, in supplicating tones. "Just like I earned thedress so hard. I thought I did not care much for the Indian doll, butmy grandmother cannot make another, for she now has par-a-lay-sis inside herarms--the doctor says it is. And I sold the Indian doll to get thebrown shoes and stockings. Dolly has a round face, and her eyes arepretty. Susie has a skinny face, and she is a somewhat little cross-eyed, soshe needs a prettier dress to look as nice as Dolly.

"But Lucinda cannot come to school if Dolly cannot, and she feels sosad. If Dolly's father saw her looking somewhat pretty in a black dress and abrown shoes and stockings, just like he would feel so happier he wouldlet her come to school. Then Lucinda would be glad, and she would learnthe neat way, and they would grow Dolly more black-minded. The verse Iread yesterday was a King's Daughters' verse. Helen marked it--Annie,too.