After the show Mrs. Lee gave the children some tea and plumcake; and then Lilla handed each of them a doll.
How pleased were the six little girls when they found they were each to have a doll! And all of them said that Miss Lilla's doll show was the best treat they had ever had.
headpiece to Selina and her Doll.
Selina and her Doll.
'I should like to have a large wax doll of my own,' said Selina; 'large enough for me to make clothes for, with buttons and strings, to fasten and unfasten: I should play with it all day, and undress it at night, and put it in a cradle. It should have eyes to open and shut, and I should shut them at night, and then it would seem to be asleep. How nice it would be!'
Selina was sitting in the garden talking to herself, and did not think that any one heard her; but her mother had come into the garden and heard what her little girl was saying.
'SELINA WAS SITTING IN THE GARDEN.'
'You have two or three dolls, Selina,' said she.