Poor little Dotty was almost broken-hearted when Laura Matilda fell and broke her arm; but Jessie said “Peter can mend it;” and Dotty took it to Peter herself for she would not trust the dear doll out of her arms. She has to sit patiently and wait her turn, just as sick people do in the hospital, and is comforted by seeing other dolls worse off than poor Laura Matilda. What if she had broken her neck? or smashed her head? O that is too dreadful to think of.
Peter has an order for a bench, and after he has sawed the board the right length, he will have to use the plane and make it nice and smooth, and all this takes time. Dotty thinks he is very slow; but there are some things that cannot be done fast, and “what is worth doing at all is worth doing well.” Have patience, little Dotty!
UP IN THE BELFRY.
Ging! Gong! Ging! Gong!
Little girls up in the belfry so high,
Think they have climbed to the edge of the sky.
Ging! Gong! Ging! Gong!
People below look like flies they’re so small;
Laura’s so short she can’t see them at all.