Dotty Dimple At Home

, wakeful and feverish, "I should think there was a drum inside

that she might fall asleep. But the sleep would not come, tho

turn it over, with all its passengers. The screaming sea-gulls seemed to be looking far down into the water in search of the sinking ch

y here to talk to her, and lay a cool hand on her head-that mamma she had

mamma comes

hear me say

'm kneeling

s kisses

face in the pillow. Papa was good, and grandma was good;

s kisses little me.' She gives me twenty kisses when I go to

of knobs on the bureau dr

had me to take care of, I'd throw me out

herself when she was all alone. It was a

ed off to sleep. She dreamed of red wherries and "white waves;" but never once dreame

ave a settled fever I shall be thankful. Will the time ever

king door a little ajar, watched an opportunity, and stole in on her "tipsy toes." It was "wee Katie."

r mouth; but it was not water: in fact it was a pillow; and on the pillow sat little Katie with her whole weight. But being a very restless child, it is no

Clifford,

weet as a wind-harp. "You didn't know I was comin'.

. You didn't mean to sit down

o. But you is sick.

iling, "when folks are

putting her finger o

w idea seizing her, "where's

hook he

mamma ve

's my mamma? Did she co

ok her he

h you, then? You

ere was

s rushing out of the room to learn whether her m

ust as tenderly as if she had never been "wherrying." "

asked her to do something, so she might prove her desire to o

feel better. It felt a while ago as

neck stif

ing fingers under Dotty's c

he, "'tisn't any sti

ugh, as it was when Jennie Vanee and I g

her mind another act of disobedience. No wonder she had thought he

I have been gone?" asked Mrs. Parlin of Mrs

She was thinking how the little girl had turned the house upside down, and, as

ably goo

uraged each other in rude behavior. She looked at her beautiful little daughter with pain, and wondered, as she had many

s. She was not as yet very well acquainted with the English language, and

tell my mamma I've been tol'ably good! Why, I ha

faint doubt, which she did not express even to herself. It was almost incredible that a grown-up lady should tell the "thing which is not," or even

r reflection, if Katie had not been in the house. As it was, Dotty did think of her own conduct for several minutes at a time, during the intervals when Katie was not dancing attenda

being greatly incensed, punished him severely. It was not often that Johnny was corrected, and this time he was very indignant. He reflected that if it had not been for Dott

business," said Johnn

doubt if Johnny thought of such a thing. He knew he had been in much peril, and now, while the remembrance of

so angry with her that he scarcely ever went up stairs to see her; and when

ot Parlin! Fore

gainst her. She had a high temper herself; but anger did not rankle in her heart f

aking ready to go into

ng for a place they

few events occurred which are worth recording. For one thing, Dotty's

that bird into the window? I knew something would happe

tland fire had affected the Parlin family in more ways than one; and it would be l