What Two Children Did by Charlotte E. Chittenden
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Ethelwyn, disgusted.
"Decoration Day, Arbor Day, and May Day," said mother. "It was a fine show, and the sun is out. You may go down now, and buy peanuts with your money." _CHAPTER XIV_ _The Wedding and the Visit_ Out in the country, God's flowers bravely grow. And all the dusty wayside is edged with golden glow; They were up in the nursery the next morning, having a wedding. A doll had opportunely lost her wig, and that always meant a good deal of excitement for the wigless one, for she was at once put to bed, and given medicine through the opening on top of the head, or made into a boy doll. This last happened now; poor cracked and dead Billy Boy's wig was jauntily glued on the wigless head, and the late Janet became Lord Jimmy, and was in the process of being wedded to Arabella, the walking, talking doll from Paris. They were propped up in the doll house, and Beth was marrying them. "Lord Jimmy," she said, "wilt thou marry Arabella and nobody else and |
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