“Oh, dear, me, I’m so sleepy,” moaned Dot. “I—I didn’t sleep very well at all last night.”
“Goodness! I should think Sammy and I ought to be the ones to be sleepy. We didn’t have any chance at all!” Tess exclaimed.
As for Sammy, he was taken home by an apparently very stern father to meet a wildly grateful mother. Mrs. Pinkney drew the sting from all verbal punishment Mr. Pinkney might have given his son.
“And the dear boy! I knew he had not forgotten us when I found he had taken that picture with him. Did you, Sammy?”
“Did I what, Mom?” asked Sammy, his mouth comfortably filled with cake.
“That picture. You know, the one we all had taken down at Pleasant Cove that time. The one of your father and you and me that you kept on your bureau. When I saw that you had taken that with you to remember us by——”
“Oh, crickey, Mom! Buster, the bull pup, ate that old picture up a month ago,” said the nonsentimental Sammy.
THE END
Charming Stories for Girls
THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS SERIES
By Grace Brooks Hill