[THE LITTLE DOLLS' DRESSMAKER.]
ADAPTED FROM CHARLES DICKENS.
BY MRS. ZADEL B. GUSTAFSON.—(Concluded.)
There stood on the door-step a rather overgrown boy, with a great many buttons on his clothes, and a very kind, pleasant face; though not at all handsome.
"Come in, sir," said the little dressmaker. "And who may you be?"
"My name's Sloppy, miss."
"DON'T OPEN YOUR MOUTH SO WIDE; SOME DAY IT'LL CATCH SO."
"Ought to be Buttons," laughed Jenny. But when Master Sloppy threw back his head and laughed, she exclaimed, "Goodness me! don't open your mouth so wide; if you do, some day it'll catch so, and never come shut again."
The big boy shut his mouth, and looked around the room for all the world as if it had been described to him, and he was trying to verify the description.