Peggy in Her Blue Frock

limbs a tree. Everything about Peggy seemed alive, from her gray eyes that met one's glance so fearlessly, to her small feet that danced about the room between her trips up and do

," said her grandmother. "And don't throw the books dow

ig brown eyes. She was two years younger than her sister Peggy, and was as small for her age as Peggy was

d her mother, as Peggy once m

t the books down

a very small one, more than a mile farther from the village. Peggy and Alice were greatly inter

he hospital where he was at work had been shelled, and he had lost his own life. This had happened almost at the end of the

, but now the world was very pleasant again. Another doctor was coming to town, to

own earth ready for planting seeds. Peggy was glad there were children in the doctor's family because they would be sure to enjoy the croquet ground and the apple trees. How she should miss the apple

and remember, if you don't succeed, my offer holds good. I'll always have a room in my small apartmen

r ones were so much more active; and she liked children better still, for the same reason; and boys even better than girls, because they never expected you to play dolls with them. Peggy did not care for dolls as Alice di

he world," said Peggy, "like a cat in a strange garret." She had read this phrase in a book the day before, and it took her fancy. And

most as cozy as the sound of a tea-kettle. She had a pleasant habit of having young families of kittens, two or three times a year. The only drawback was,

ork, others to the Town Library, while many of them they were to keep themselves. All the medical

dren the doctor has, and whether th

aid 'children'

, and that she will like to

don't see what more y

er here in the wi

t they were to spend in the old house, and they felt a little sad as they climbed into the mahogany four-poster be

rrow night," said Peggy. "We'll have R

ad christened by this name when she was a tiny child, b

gs," said Alice. "Perhaps you can see t

could not see. She shut her eyes up and thought hard an

e tried it she could see nothing. "Do you

my mind's eye

e to-night, Peg

d a girl; and they are pickin

Ma

he girl is a little bigger than you and a little smaller than me, so she

that is at all

retty name; I just said h

e it i

t do you g

don't

guess so

ell, F

ery stupid sort of

of the possible girl and boy when their mother ca

wonder what you do find to talk about