Herbert," "The Bad Little Girl," and "Annie's Visit to her Grandma."
She had one place for poetry, and two places she had marked "History;"
for, as she told Dumps, she wasn't going to write anything unless it was
useful; she wasn't going to write just trash.

The titles being all decided upon, Dumps and Chris went back to their
dolls, and Diddie began to write her first story.

"Nettie Herbert."

"Nettie Herbert was a poor little girl;" and then she stopped and asked,

"Dumps, would you have Nettie Herbert a po' little girl?"

"No, I wouldn't have nobody er po' little girl," said Dumps,
conclusively, and Diddie drew a line through what she had written, and
began again.

"Nettie Herbert was a rich little girl, and she lived with her pa and ma
in a big house in Nu Orlins; and one time her father give her a gold
dollar, and she went down town, and bort a grate big wax doll with open
and shet eyes, and a little cooking stove with pots and kittles, and a
wuck box, and lots uv pieces uv clorf to make doll cloes, and a
bu-te-ful gold ring, and a lockit with her pas hare in it, and a big box
full uv all kinds uv candy and nuts and razens and ornges and things,
and a little git-ar to play chunes on, and two little tubs and some
little iuns to wash her doll cloes with; then she bort a little
wheelbarrer, and put all the things in it, and started fur home. When
she was going a long, presently she herd sumbody cryin and jes a sobbin
himself most to deaf; and twas a poor little boy all barefooted and jes