Dotty Dimple Out West

name Do

dolphus

Dimple is my short name. There are a pair of dimples dotted into my cheek; don't y

uietly; he had se

l just now there was any

never

y papa and mamma, and two sisters, and a Quaker grandma (only you must sa

randmothe

old. They let you do everything. I wouldn't not have grandmothers and fathers

ind

rs. We hadn't any place to stay. My sister Susy! You ought to heard he

o you li

ndsome as our house was; for the man can't make things so nic

not a

ssons. You have to sit up as straight as a pin, and coun

n. She felt great pleasure in having found a travell

ou something. Did yo

N

ed to-day. The people are called Hoojers. They don't spect me, bu

; ever

my papa; and he don't know how to part my hair in

th some exclamation of awe, or at least surpris

e of the highest 'pinions of me; and he says I'm as good as a

eply, "a great many times.

y, dropping her porte

ling as insignificant as a "Catharine wheel," which, havi

whole world?" repeated she

n my fathe

as quenched entirely. Even her jaunty hat seemed t

e porte-monnaie, which, in her s

keep a ship?" aske

. Once they took me; and that was the time I

t you a

afraid where

ean, when you found the sh

d Adolphus. "I don

ourse the ship turned right over, you know. Didn't you want

, observing the mortification expressed in his compan

the looks of it. Wherever I've been, the land seems flat,

er went "tip-side up." But he was mistaken if he considered Dotty a simpleton. The child had never gone to school. Her parents believed there

ston before?" pursued Adolphu

lied Dotty, meekly

ere I bought my beautiful rabbit. Were you ever in

didn't kn

f Palermo? The Italians c

, with a faint effort to keep up appea

s a beautiful bird, and talks better

Dotty, in a tone of

, larger than a crow; converses quite flue

time, that, if Adolphus had told of going with Captain Lally to

little companion's extreme simplicity, he was tempted to inven

her afterwards," said

ear of the Grea

know's I

er! Your sister Prudy has, I'm sure. It is tied

it b

. About the s

as a tub?" repeat

e longest kin

dn't li

hould ju

it to the

perhaps. You remember h

brig

d about that! Susy

but people had lost the run of it, and didn't know where it was, a

di

was certainly in earnest; but there was somet

ll the time, where did C'lumbus c

plied Adolphus, taking off his

some time lo

so cold up there that the frost 'heaves' it. You know what 'heaves' means? The ground freezes and then th

her youthful face expressed surp

t is what they pound the pole with. Queer-isn

o be questioned; but Dotty m

lieve that story about the giant's having the nose-bleed, and

ravely. "You needn't tell it, D

steadily gazed out of the window at the trees and houses flying by. It

after all," he thought; "that

opportunity to assure her that these absurd stories had been spun out of his o

he's a naughty boy: but I shan't

s relief, though they did carry away the beautiful Spanish rabbit;

?" said Mr. Parlin, putt

rth pole is top of the world-isn' it

farther than t

'em pound it down with an axe-could we? Tha

n laughed

ell you such a

on, as large as a tub. And a man tied it that came from I-don't-know-where, and found this wor

still laughing. "Hadn't you been putting on airs?

w what 'airs

at you were travelling out West, and as

did," stamm

e of yourself, and know how to part your hair in the middle. I did no

ked quite

and unpretending. Didn't you think he might be a little stupid? And didn't y

ret thoughts which she herself could hardly have told! She felt sup

id right to tease you,"

severe enough; for, after all, she had done nothi

basket yet! What do you say to a lunch, with the Boston Jour

y had buried her ch

cars were racketing