"Oho!" cried Carroll, "did you girls take a prize at a cake walk?"
"Not a cake walk, but we took a prize for making cake," Dotty exclaimed; "and I say, Dolly, let's buy something in that shop where we bought the doll. They have beautiful things there of all sorts."
"Come on," said Pauline, "let's all go, and we'll help you pick out things."
So the two Cliftons and the two Browns and the two D's all started for the shop. It was that sort of summer resort bazaar that holds all kinds of fancy knick-knacks for frivolous purchasers.
"Going to get things alike or different?" asked Tod Brown, as they went in.
"Different, of course," said Tad, "Dot and Dolly never like things alike."
"Don't you really?" said Pauline; "how funny! I thought you were such great friends you always had everything just alike."
"No," said Dolly, "we have everything just different. You see our tastes are just about opposite, I expect that's why we're such friends."
Dotty and Carroll were already studying the things at the jewellery counter, while Dolly was slowly but surely making toward the book department.
"Get a picture," suggested Tad, "here are some good water colours of the sea."