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new milk while the rest of us hide our faces and Katie makes a hasty exit.
A distinguished stranger visits the house during this spring, and the children are given the honor of an introduction to her. Each one is presented and pleasantly received excepting Dorothy, who escapes notice, probably on account of her diminutiveness. But she is equal to the occasion. Waiting only to be sure that she has been forgotten, she steps to the great lady's side and touches her upon the arm. "This is me," she says gently.
As time wears on, Dorothy begins to attend school and her language becomes as a consequence? very ungrammatical. "Mama," she reminds, "don't forget, please. Tomorrow morning Grace is to be woken up, but I am to be let slep." One day she comes home so delighted about something as to be scarcely able to wait to get into the house before making us sharers of her pleasure. Some one has said to her, "Jo's sick," and on being asked, "What Jo?" has responded, "Banjo." For the first time in her life, Dorothy has fully appreciated a joke, and finding that it has a good effect upon us, she retires into a dark corner and meditates, hoping to be able to produce something original in that line. In a short time she emerges from retirement, triumphant. "Purr is sick," she proudly announces. "What Purr?" "Purraner"—which, being interpreted means piano.
It is during these early school days also that Dorothy develops proclivities which reminds one irresistibly of Mrs. Malaprop. "No, I don't think it is there," she says, referring to her lost speller, "but perhaps I had better go and expectorate."
But the inevitable comes, and Dorothy finds out at last that she is a clever little person capable of saying things that attract attention, attention, arouse general commendation, and are considered worthy of repetition for the benefit of family friends. But she is puzzled and deeply wounded to find that we laugh less at what she considers her most brilliant attempts, and more and more frequently looks pained
while we tell her that one of the best lessons a little girl can learn is when to be silent. She has become aware of that being called "self," and for the present has iost all her sweet unconsciousness. Some day, we are hoping, when care and thought for others shall occupy her days and nights she will find it again, and and then we shall know that Dorothy is no longer a little girl, but a "truly" woman.
H. M. B.
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