“O children, what lovely times we are having!” said Janie. “I wish they could last always.” And each one piped in:
“Yes, but they can’t, and we must enjoy them while they do last.”
“I know one thing, I do take better care of my doll now. I never used to keep her face clean, and she was nearly always naked.”
“It was mine that was ruined from my throwing her up to the wall. I was so mad at her that day, just because I couldn’t make her dress fit. I have a new one now, and I am very careful of her.”
“And mine was drowned, but I really was sorry after I did it. She wouldn’t stand up, and I grew cross and threw her into the water; but, of course, I never knew she had any feelings. There goes my new one now, riding the wheel which papa had made for her.”
The girls clapped their hands with delight at the unusual spectacle. To think of a doll on a wheel! What would happen next?
Just then mamma’s voice summoned them to the kitchen, where they found a great basket of little candy boxes in the forms of hearts, diamonds, half-moons, drums and cunning barrels. They packed the candy neatly and tied each box with a pretty ribbon.