"I think it would be better," said Mrs Lee, "for you to save up your money and buy something worth having."
"Isn't a large wax doll worth having?"
"Oh, yes! for a little girl like you."
"Then I'll save up my money, until I get enough to buy me a doll as big as Sarah Johnson's."
In about an hour afterward, Emma came to her mother, and said—
"I've just thought what I will do with my sixpence. I saw such a beautiful book at a store, yesterday! It was full of pictures, and the price was just sixpence. I'll buy that book."
"But didn't you say, a little while ago, that you were going to save your money until you had enough to buy a doll?"
"I know I did, mother; but I didn't think about the book then. And it will take so long before I can save up money enough to get a new doll. I think I will buy the book."
"Very well, dear," replied Mrs Lee.
Not long after, Emma changed her mind again.