“Good night, mother dear,” she said. “I have had a very nice time, and I am glad to have seen the Snowland again, and ‘Billy-Bah,’ and the little brown Eskimos, and those dear little children who gave me the Eskimo doll, even if they could not speak English or German. The christening of the meteorite was great fun, and I liked the big ship and our funny little room, and I liked my big brothers on the ship; but I like Grossma’s house the very best of all, don’t you?”
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
- Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
- Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.