Dotty Dimple At Home

ild at Mrs. Eastman's. One morning Dotty climbed

ows a hat-tree wasn't made for li

elf backward and forward like a bird on a bough. "I'm goi

and through the house, and finally tossed her backward into a pile of shavings. Dotty sprang up, shook

that will be glad when

d behaved like a lady when she first came; but wh

e and Dotty raced through the kitch

nder what's going to happen that's bad," thought she, as she fed the bird in her own chamber with cream bisc

. Come, let's go out and have some

ll day, and every day, whether

or Johnny 'n' I are going down t

d up from h

she; then throwing her arms ab

ve me as I

ll cut our l

with an affectionate hug, "an

nxiously. "You know mamma's as af

fterwards. "Of all the rummaging children!" At the sa

e girl, shutting the sink door. "Last ti

ned to be in

he pleasant sunshine. "I do think, just to myself-though I wouldn't say it out loud-that I'm a

nking about?"

ings! Let's run; it tire

Johnny, "there

s, as that of the women we read about in the Bible. She had dark, wavy hair, like sea-foam with ink tipped o

lip the

d her waxe

s. Parlin was afraid Mandoline had not been taught to respect the truth, and

petted her. Dotty thought it could not be wrong to a

us, Lina,"

are you

ement," replied Dotty. "We know w

my shaker. A

Dotty, in a grandmotherly tone, "fo

deaf and dumb boy, who only knew when it thundered by the jar he could feel. Everybody was kind

sured Prudy to the contrary. Shell-gathering is more exciting work than picking strawberries

shells to be found. They had all become weary of groping about in the sand, when

ere!" shout

sn't Sol Rosenberg!" (This was Mandoli

icular. Get i

and I. Fred can steer as straight'

added Solom

owards the boat, which, by this time, Solomon

berg, old enough and know enough

olomon

age a small con

one more, mak

d carry sixteen, if they were a

as much as two tons," said J

s, shaking the wayward hair out of her magnifice

feet into the s

but then she was upset in a scur

ing is a scursio

And she wasn't upset eithe

alled Solly.

ma said it

aw this boat; she doesn't kn

ngle speck, Solly Ros

waves come in; it's as ti

id seem, when she really wished to do any particula

mamma doesn't '

ty had taken the first false step; she had listened to the voice of temptatio

sn't ever 'lo

ry," said Johnny. "Come, Sol, don't stop to bot

himself up and looking very manly; "the girls sha

forbidden her to go on the water, and had declared that Solomon was too young to manage a boat; but neither Lina nor her brother had very tender consciences. If they did wrong things, and nobody knew it, it was all very

il boat, and the wind whistled so the sails shook dreadfully. My mamma neve

sinking into a pool of dirty water. She lifted her feet, but could not keep them up. Well, perhaps she shouldn't have the sore throat af

d Johnny, as they launc

for a few moments Dotty was quite del

nothing but a wherry, an

her promise to Prudy, not to

Rosenberg. I didn't know he was in this city. Prudy'd like it ju