Kernel Cob And Little Miss Sweetclover

sister named Peggs, and they lived with th

a little girl, that she quite forgot that c

no soldiers or dolls but could onl

ttle white fence with a little white gate in it ran all about and at the back of

began to cry and Jackie ran and put his arms about her, fo

r, Peggsie? Did a

Peggs, "i

a naught

Peggs, "i

was it?" s

bit me, only I want a doll

t want a doll any mor'n I want a soldier," an

or a long time, maybe four

u what!" s

s, drying her eye

ill give us

soldier," says Peg

e one," sa

good way,"

slapped one of his legs the way

make it of?"

Jackie. "Good

the dolls of. And pretty soon, Peggs made the most w

a bodice and a skirt, and it was tied to the head so that they wouldn't come apart. And perched on the

lover and it was the dearest little

couldn't find anything to make a soldier of except sticks of wo

he looked about the garden, and just then

els off except two for the eyes, one for the nos

o have her sew some c

iss Sweetclover?" says Peggs,

legs." And while Peggs cut out and sewed a uniform for t

ower, bent at the ends to look like fe

d stockings on." And he tied them to the rest of Sweet

rom the gold leaf that comes on a card of buttons. And when they were all sewed on the jacket, he cut out a sword from the gold leaf and made hands and fee

call him?" a

ht, and though

it!" sai

" aske

im Kernel Cob

ggs, clapping her

and what wonderful things they did, and how they

will