I never saw so many nice things." "Humph! What do you like best ?" The answer was a question, and was characteristic.
"Which did you give me ?" asked Bos'n.
The captain would have dodged, but she wouldn't let him.

So one by one the presents he had given were indicated and put by themselves.

The remainder were but few, but she insisted that the givers of these should be named.

When the sorting was over she sat silently hugging her doll and, apparently, thinking.
"Well ?" inquired the amused captain.

"Made up your mind yet?
Which do you like best ?" The child nodded.
"Why, these, of course," she declared with emphasis, pointing with her dollie's slippered foot at Captain Cy's pile.
"So?
Do, hey?
Didn't know I could pick so well.