"Oh, Polly, are you hurt?"
Old Mr. King drew up his chair to oversee it all
"You come along yourself, Dobbs," said Joel pleasantly
"I'll help you; I'm strong," said Charlotte.
"It's so nice, everybody is getting on so well," said Polly
Then Phronsie glanced back again, and softly jogged the cradle
"Why do you put your apron up there?" asked Phronsie in gentle reproach
"An old gentleman in my room," repeated Jasper, turning on the stairs
"Good-morning," said Mr. Marlowe; "business all right?"
"How you can sit there and laugh when Joe is in danger, I don't see,"
exclaimed Percy irritably.
"Well, now I have two babies," said Mother Fisher
"I've always found," said Dr. Fisher, "that all you had to do to start a
thing, was to begin"
"Phronsie, get a glass of water; be quick, child!"
"I think it was a mean shame!" began Dick wrathfully
"Oh. why did I speak?" cried Polly over and over
"Are you sick, Polly?" cried Phronsie anxiously
"Polly hasn't had all the milk," said Phronsie
Amy
"Nothing can be too good for Polly Pepper!" cried Alexia, starting
forward
He walked off, leaving Polly alone in the lane
"My! what a sight of fish!" exclaimed Mrs. Higby, dropping to her knees
beside the basket
"Now, Jasper, you begin," cried Polly, "and we'll tell Mamsie all about
it, as we always do when we get home"
"Polly, do come with us!"
"And you will be my own brother, Jasper," said Phronsie