"Brothers and sisters for me?" asked the little one joyously.
"Your papa's brothers and sisters, nice playfellows for you," Mildred answered. "There is Enna, who is just a baby girl, only two years old."
"I's four, I's big girl," put in the child.
"Yes; and Walter is past three, nearly as old as you; and what nice plays you can have together."
"Yes, I want to take him a present; and one for the baby, and—what's dere names? de other children?"
Mildred went over the list, and the baby girl repeated her wish to take a gift to each.
"We will ask your grandpa about it," Mildred said.
"Has dey dot a mamma?" was the next query; and that being answered in the affirmative, the wish was expressed that she, too, should be remembered with a pretty present, and that Cousin Milly would ask grandpa's permission for all these purchases.
Mildred took an early opportunity to do so.
"Who has put that nonsense into the child's head?" he asked in some vexation.