"Ne guessez pas a lui."
Frankie, however, was too sharp for her; there was not much that escaped him, and he exclaimed in a very aggrieved tone that it was "not fair," and that Lily should guess at him.
So Lily said "Flossey" was the character; and, amid much laughter, the young gentleman betook himself to the hall with a pompous air, telling the little girls to make haste.
"Let's take himself," said Bessie, which being agreed upon, Frankie was called back almost before he was well out of the room.
"Is he blat or white?" he asked, following Lily's example, and beginning as she had done at Dora.
"He's white," said Dora laughing; and, in obedience to a suggestion from Maggie to help him out, she added,—"white, with brown eyes and red cheeks and brown hair."
"Flossey," cried Frankie triumphantly.
"No, no; not Flossey again," said the children.
"Does he have four feets?" asked the little boy.
"No, only two," said Belle.