By some merry field-mice:
Don’t you think that was nice
Ring-a-ring-around!”
CHAPTER VII.
THE DOLL’S PARADISE.
IT was a very wet day and Dorothy could not go out, so she went to her own little playroom to have a good time with her dolls. Susan Ida was a large wax doll with black eyes and golden hair, that is to say, she had golden hair when Santa Claus brought her, but owing to an accident this beautiful hair, which should have been hanging down her back, was suspended from a hook in the closet.
I am sorry to say Susan Ida was bald.
Kathleen had once been a handsome china doll with black wavy hair parted right in the middle, but, alas! Kathleen was a cripple for the rest of her doll existence, having lost both legs.
Dinah was a lovely colored baby, but somehow she had lost an arm and had one eye knocked out, while Jessop, who was a clown-doll with bells in his cap, had a broken nose and wore very ragged clothes. Dorothy set them all in a row and looked at them with a frown on her sunny face.