Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple

for Willow-brook, their mother allowed them to spend their last Wednesday aftern

ff my kyurls. Don't you think I do look like a boy, now, P

hen her toilet was made, "say

be done practising in half an hour, and I thought I'd just have time to mak

r to you, I won't treat you so. I want to get my letters

d have been gratified to see

. "Yes, I will. I'm always glad after I've been kind. Not

, which I think is doing finely, all alone, with nobody to help us. This

k, and that's in a mug," repl

s mother drin

it has grounds; but they don't look like that thing, the grounds don't

aughed Prudy. "Well

it stood "for your thumb. Susy said

Her mother was both surprised and delighted to hea

out," said Prudy, "and can sp

hed Dotty, showing her deepest dim

hildren, "I am really very much gratified. Both teacher and

, though she did not know what was meant by patience and perseverance,

d Johnny were found running off the track of the upper railroad just one second after the en

illion times-hasn't we, Johnny? We wait till the injin w'

been in the habit of crossing pins on the track, to make "sciss

. "This Alice Parlin is the most daring little creatu

rudy," she said, "was a natural

-brook. Dotty wished to take her sweet Pusheen and her darling Zip; b

, embracing her, "and eat all the mice in t

nd Dotty watched him all the way, scarcely a

down, but she doesn't think it's best. You is only a doggie, and you'd get runn

the spirit of a

Willow-brook in safety,

andsomest lady there is in this

," exclaimed Prudy, "when there

's s

r, of

e, telling her "brother Zip" the story of that dog's death, and trying to

a whole year for the children. A few things had been added: a hennery,-called by Dotty "a henpeckery"-and a graceful white boat, named the Water-Kelpie. This boa

nt Martha's nephew, took daily lessons in rowing; but Susy, who had for years been accustomed to the water, knew how to manage a boat far better tha

a nail any better than I can, Susy Parlin, and I can

heard you roar," replied Ab

t I row her

, cautiously; "but little Sue,

eyes as they met Lonnie's. At that moment she felt equal

Master Lonnie were going over the river, after some wild-flower roo

the one to go

the grandmother; "that

owing her to go alone; but it so happened, when she reached the

t Susy, "Abner is gen

'thout me?" cried Dotty Dim

did you come f

a pair of rubber oversh

ht on, or you'll catch the h

rs, "I've forgot the basket for those Jack-in

ickly, "and I'm goin' where you go, you know; and

h you, Dotty Dimple; always co

otty, with one of her sweete

xed

come her own self. She said she wished

pose he's in the cornfield, or the meadow, or the barn. It's after five; and what will aunt Martha th

n't do nothin' but just sit stil

ake you, then. Come, little Mi

. Allen had called a "child-qu

o'clock long ago! O, I'll take this good smooth shingle, I declare! I guess it washed ashore on purpose; it's almost eq

er hands, which had any amount of d

es as well with a shingle as Lonnie can with a paddle. What do you suppose aunt Mart

r! Look at the bubbles winkin' their eyes! See tho

it still? You'll tip us both over, as sure as this world; and if we get dr

e boat's dizzy! My head's goin' to tip into the water. But

nly seized wit

in, as long as I live! You sit as still as ever

e same time slightly acid, like a stick of lemon-candy. The Water Kelpie, now

lue water. Susy's fair arms were bared to the elbows, and her face was deeply f

unt Martha appeared. The children clambered out at last, and Susy chained the boat to a stick, which she drove into the sand. But the sand was light, and

"Bravo! my two nieces are smart children, to be rowing all alone by themselves." Nothing of the sort. She reproved Susy f

forted when he saw that

I wouldn't put Dotty in, and most drow

bner slyly laid by the dripping shingle, and afterwards showed it to eve

Dotty Dimple more fearless than ever; but her ne