"I've got any quantity of scrip," pursued Jennie; "and I don't have to work for it, either."
"O, dear," thought Dotty, "what's the use to be good? I 'sposed if I gave away my money cheerfully, they'd all feel ashamed of themselves; but they don't! I wish I had it back in my box, I do!"
CHAPTER II.
PLAYING KING AND QUEEN.
"What are you hunting for on your hands and knees, Alice?" said grandmamma, next day.
"O, nothing, only pins, grandma; but I can't find any. Isn't this a hidden-mist carpet?"
"No, dear; a hit-and-miss carpet is made of rags. But what do you want of pins?"
"She has given away what Aunt Ria paid her for Christmas," said Prudy, speaking for her; "she gave it all to the beggar."
"Yes, she did; one, two, free, four, nineteen, tenteen," said Katie; "and the gemplum didn't love little goorls."