“I might get something there!” she cried. “Come on, girls!”
The three girls ran to the big, sunny bleaching ground, where three long lines of white clothes waved in the breeze.
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“They’re all too little,” said Pinkie, as she viewed Dolly’s own dresses and petticoats.
“No, here’s Aunt Rachel’s nightgown! This will do!” cried Dolly, and in a jiffy she had the clothespins pulled off, and the voluminous, ruffled garment in her arms.
“Just the thing!” cried Maddy, and they raced back to the playground.
It made a beautiful white robe for Eliza, and when belted with a large bath-towel, also brought from the clothes line, Eliza looked like an Oriental princess.
“Get another towel and make a turban,” said Clifford, and this gave their queen a still more foreign look.