Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith
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warrant calling it the face. To make the difference more marked Dorothy
broke some straws from the covering of one of the rosebushes and created hair with them. "Now nobody could mistake this being his speaking countenance," decided Helen, sticking two pieces of coal where eyes should be and adding a third for the mouth. Dicky had found the pipe and she thrust it above his lips. "Merely two-lips, not ruby lips," commented Roger. "This is an original fellow; he's 'not like other girls.'" "This cane is going to hold up his right arm; I don't feel so certain about the left," remarked Ethel Brown anxiously. "Let it fall at his side. That's some natural, anyway. He's walking, you see, swinging one arm and with the other on the top of his cane." "He'll take cold if he doesn't have something on his head. I'm nervous about him," and Dorothy bent a worried look at their creation. "Hullo," cried a voice from beyond the gate. "He's bully. Just make him a cap out of this bandanna and he'll look like a Venetian gondolier." James Hancock and his sister, Margaret, the Glen Point members of the United Service Club, came through the gate, congratulated Ethel Blue on her birthday, and paid elaborate compliments to the sculptors of the Gondolier. "That red hanky on his massive brow gives the touch of color he needed," |
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