Snookums. Wish Grandpaw would come home.
Tootsy. I know a real good wish. I wish it were Christmas every day. Don't you, Dumpling?
Dumpling. No, I don't. We'd have to have a present and a tree and a turkey and plum pudding every day of our lives. We'd get awfully tired of it after a while. Just think, we'd have to give away about a million presents every year.
Tootsy. I'll tell you what I really do wish.
Dumpling. What?
Tootsy. I wish we could do just like grown up folks do. I wish I was the biggest little girl in all the world.
Dumpling. And I wish so, too. I wish we were just awfully, awfully, awfully big—and then we could go to Aunt Clara's dinner party, and everywhere.
Snookums. Me wish me was great big Snookums.
Tootsy. But money couldn't buy that wish, Dumpling.
Dumpling. No, that's right. But Grandpa said if he couldn't buy our wish he'd get it some other way.