"Tessie!" called mother's voice, "Tessie, come here, I want you to run down to the grocer."
"Oh, dear!" sighed the three tiny T's.
Tessie jumped up quickly and ran inside the house, closely followed by Tottie and Teddy.
"You can wear your roller skates," said mother, "and Teddy can put on his and go with you, if he wishes."
In a few minutes the skates were strapped on each impatient little foot, and mother's darling messengers were gliding down the front walk.
"Be very careful not to break the eggs," said mother, as she stood in the doorway watching them go out of the gate. "Hold the bag tight and don't go fast on the way home."
[CHAPTER II]
Tessie and Teddy skated along smoothly on their errand for mother. The roller skates behaved very well, and did not try to race with each other, so that neither little messenger had a fall, or even a bump against anybody on the sidewalk who did not get out of the way in time.
The fat grocer man said good morning very pleasantly, and gave them each a little animal cracker. Tessie told him what she wanted, and while he was counting out the eggs and putting them in the bag, she stroked his big tiger cat, who lay half asleep on the top of the sugar barrel.