The merry children hasten off to welcome their little friend Charlie Leonard, who was coming to spend the day with them.
CHAPTER VII.
“How the heart of childhood dances,
Upon a sunny day!
It has its own romances,
And a wide, wild world have they!”
“Hallo! Charlie boy. Come along, here’s all kinds of fun. Shall we have blind-man’s-buff on the grass-plat, or will you play croquet with Daisy and me?”
“No, no, Charlie,” sounded Rosie’s beseeching tones, “come and help me gather mullein-leaves for dollies’ blankets, and these cunning pot-cheeses to play store with. See, Celia has lent her for-true scales. Only look! and Hugh has given us four cents and two ginger-snaps that weigh a pound.”