CONTENTS

CHAPTER I[ 7]
CHAPTER II[ 23]
CHAPTER III[ 37]
CHAPTER IV[ 52]
CHAPTER V[ 66]
CHAPTER VI[ 82]
CHAPTER VII [ 98]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[“THE TWO CHILDREN, WITH LITTLE LOUIE, WERE PLAYING IN THE LAUNDRY.”]

[“O, HAROLD, HERE IT IS!”]

[“SHE OCCUPIED HERSELF WITH TRYING TO PLAY MARBLES.”]

CHAPTER I.

IT was raining dismally. Mabel, leaning her arms on the broad window-sill, watched the drops trickling down the panes. Before her was an array of paper dolls in gay tissue dresses. They sat perched upon pasteboard chairs in front of a circle of queer creatures with flat heads, and no feet; hand in hand these stood, rather flimsy in appearance. Mabel had cut them all in one from a bit of newspaper.

Presently she gave the whole company a sweep off on the floor.

“I’m tired of you,” she said. “And it’s raining, and I don’t know what to do. I wish I were twins, so I could have someone to play with.”