[STORY XI]
HOW CRACKIE BROKE HER DOLL
I may as well tell you at the very beginning, for you would find it out sooner or later anyhow, I suppose, so I may as well tell you at the beginning, that this is partly a story for girls, and partly a story for boys. The girl part is about the doll, and the boy part is about breaking it, and after that—
Well, I guess I had better tell you the story, and let you see for yourselves what happened afterward.
The reason this story is to be both for girls and boys is because my little girl asked me to write a story with a doll in it. I said I would.
And right after that my little boy, who heard her, said:
"And please put a scary part in it for me."
You see boys like the scary part. So that's why this is a sort of double-jointed story—one part for girls and the other for boys.
Now that I have explained it I will begin.