I believe I shall cut it all off, put on just a pinafore, and go as a piccaninny." "That sounds a little vulgar," observed Rose.

"There are your stockings under the bed.

You must have dropped them under.

I should think the more simply you do your hair the better if you are going to wear a coloured kerchief over it.

You have natural ringlets in front, and that is the only part that will show." "And they will hang down over my eyes," retorted Dinah, "unless I fasten them back with a comb, which I haven't got.