'SHE HELD THREE IN HER ARMS.'
Mrs. Lee stroked Lilla's curly hair.
'Well, said Mrs. Lee, 'there are some very good little girls at the school in the village, and I am sure it would be a great treat to them to see all your dolls. And I want to give them a treat, so I will ask them to come here, and you shall arrange all your dolls and playthings in the nursery for them to look at. Don't you think that will be a very good plan?'
Lilla clapped her hands.
'Oh, how very nice that would be!'
And she and her mother dressed the dolls in their best clothes, and placed them all round the nursery.
'How pretty they look!' said Lilla; 'I think the little girls will like them. And may I give them some dolls to take home?'
'You may do as you please,' said Mrs. Lee, 'for they are your own dolls.'
So the little girls came—six of them; and they all said, 'Oh!'
'What a lot of dolls!' said one little girl; 'more dolls than there are at the shop.'