There, that's all; you do not hear a word I say; and if you did, you would not heed, O, self-righteous Dotty Dimple!
Dotty ran up stairs to find her grandmother.
"Grandma," whispered she, though there was no one else in the room; "something dreadful has happened. You've lost three dollars!"
"What, dear?"
"O, you needn't look in your pocket. Jennie found 'em in the rag-bag, and tried to make me take half; but of course I never; and now she's run off with 'em!"
"Found three dollars in the rag-bag? I guess not."
"Yes, grandma; for I saw her just as she was going to find em', in a pair of pockets. I should have seen 'em myself if she hadn't looked first."
"Indeed! Is this really so? But she ought to have come and given them to me."
"That was just what I told her, over and over, grandma, and over again. But she's a dreadful naughty girl, Jennie Vance is. If there's anything bad she can do, she goes right off and does it."
"Hush, my child."