8/16 There's a doll I brought her from New Orleans once when she was about your size. No telling what it looks like now, but it was a beauty when it was new." Lloyd clapped her hands and spun around the room like a top. "What did she call the doll, gran'fathah, do you remembah ?" "I never paid much attention to such things," he answered, "but I do remember the name of this one, because she named it for her mother,--Amanthis." "Amanthis," repeated the child, dreamily, as she leaned against his knee. "I think that is a lovely name, gran'fathah. I wish they had called me that." She repeated it softly several times. |