Dotty Dimple at Play by Sophie [pseud.] May
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"Now you be good gell all day, Katie Clifford--not dishbey your mamma, not hide her freds o' spools, say fank you please. O my shole!" So Katie was made happy for twenty-four hours. "After we sleep one more time," said she, "then we shall go." She wished to sleep that "one more time" with Dotty; but her little head was so full of the journey that she aroused her bedfellow in the middle of the night, calling out,-- "We's goin' to 'Naplis,--we for salt, salt, salt,--yidin' in the cars, Dotty Dimpwil." It was some time before Dotty could come out of dreamland, and understand what Katie said. "Won't you please to hush?" she whispered faintly, and turned away her face, for the new moon was shining into her eyes. "Let's we get up," cried Katie, shaking her by the shoulders; "don't you see the sun's all corned up bwight?" "O, that's nothing but just the moon, Katie Clifford." "O ho! is um the moon? Who cutted im in two?" said Flyaway, and dropped to sleep again. Dotty was really sorry to leave aunt Maria's pleasant house, and the |
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