One day a little girl living next door told her the doll was only filled with cotton. And the little girl cried.
When the other little girl had gone, the little girl got out a scissors and determined to find out if her doll was, after all, not real and human, but only filled with cotton, as the little neighbour girl had said.
The little girl cut her doll open, and found that it was filled with sawdust.
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Again Mephisto chuckled in anticipation.
Somewhere, a little country girl, for the first time, was powdering her nose.