With a stiff white muslin crown.
A primly folded muslin cape—
I don't think one of you all
Would have been so bold as to dare to play
With that dignified Puritan doll.
Dear little Ruth showed her delight
In her pretty, quiet way;
She sat on her stool in the great fire-place,
And held her doll all day.
And then (she always said "good-night"