"I'm going to say that I dink milk, and that girl lost my pills.
"I see a hop-toad. He hopped. Jennie took her up in his dress.
"And 'bout we put hop-toad in wash-dish. He put his foots out, stwetched, honest! He was a slippy fellow. First thing we knowed it, he hopped on to her dress. Isn't that funny?
"Now 'bout the chickens; they are trottin' round on the grass: they didn't be dead. We haven't got any only but dead ones; but Mis' Gray has.
"I like Dr. Gray ever so much!
"Mis' Gray gave me the kitty to play with. I bundled it all up in my dress, 'cause I didn't want the cat to get it. When I went home I gave it to the cat. [You got that wroten?]
"There wasn't any dead little kittens. She gave me a cookie, and I eated it, and I told her to give me another to bring home, 'cause I liked her cookies; they was curly cookies. [Got it wroted, mamma?]
"Now 'bout I pumped full a pail full o' water.
"[She knows we've got a house?]
"Now say good by, and I kiss her a pretty little kiss. O, no; I want her to come and see me,—her and Prudy,—two of 'em! I's here yet. ['Haps she knows it!]