A Dear Little Girl's Summer Holidays

AMY E. BLANCHARD
Whitman Publishing Co. RACINE, WISCONSIN
Copyright 1911 by George W. Jacobs & Co.
A Dear Little Girl's Summer Holidays
Printed in 1924 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. Racine, Wis.
Printed in U.S.A.
It was a very warm morning in June. Edna and her friend Dorothy Evans were sitting under the trees trying to keep cool. They both wore their thinnest morning frocks and had pinned their hair up in little pug knots on the tops of their heads. They had their boxes of pieces and were trying to make something suitable for their dolls to wear in the hot weather.
It's too sticky to sew, said Dorothy, throwing down her work. Marguerite will have to go without a frock and sit around in her skin.
You mean in her kid, returned Edna.
Well, isn't kid skin? asked Dorothy.
Edna laughed. Why, yes, I suppose it is, and Ben says we are kids, so our skin is kid skin. Oh, dear, it is hot. I wish I were a fish; it would be so nice to go slipping through the cool water.
I feel almost as if I were doing that now. There comes the postman, I wonder if he has a letter from Jennie. We promised one another we would always write on blue paper because blue is true, you know, and that looks as if it might be a blue letter the postman has on top. I'm going to see.