Rafael clapped his hands with the rest when Miss Florence pinned the fish in the river and the red tag on Francie's blouse.
And what do you think? Out in the big room there were two more new fish, one in Mother Fisher's class and one in Father Fisher's. They were Mr. Lugi and the little Italian mother, come to Sunday-school with their little boy.
“Really and truly,” Francie said, “seem's if I caught three fish 'stead of one.”
“Really and truly,” said Mother Fisher, “I think you did.”
“ALL BY HERSELF.”
The older children were gone out for the day: mamma was busy in the sewing room with Miss Fay: Molly was doing the Saturday baking. “What could Alice do all by herself?”
This was the very question that popped into the wee girl's own head, and she trotted off to ask mamma.
“Here's I,” she said, at the sewing room door. “Here's I, all by myself. What's I goin' do, mamma?”