Telegram
Miss Mary Frances:Expect | by | Express | Mary | Marie |
and | trunk. | Letter | follows. | |Mother.
Wrote her name in the book
“Oh! Oh! Oh!” she cried. “I know, Nanny dear, I know! Mary Marie is my dear new dolly. I do wonder what she will be like! Isn’t Mother too sweet and kind!”
“There’s the postman,” said Grandma, all laughter and smiles. “I wonder if he—” but Mary Frances was already at the door.
“A letter
from
Father!”
“Surely enough,” she cried. “A letter from Father. I’ll read it to you, Grandma—” tearing open the envelope:
Dear Mary Frances:—
Mother bought for you to-day the prettiest doll in San Francisco, and she is going to send it by express, as soon as she gets some shopping done for the young lady. She will send a telegram when she starts Mary Marie on her journey, and will write a letter of instruction as to her health, wealth, and happiness.
Give our love to dear Grandma.
It is a delight to send the prettiest doll in San Francisco, to the darlingest little girl in the whole wide world—at least she is to her
Loving Father.