So, smile away, my lady!" King's merry speech made Bertha laugh, and the dimples came in her cheeks, and she looked very pretty as they went up the walk.
"Goodness, Bertha!" exclaimed Elsie.

"If you knew how much prettier you look when you smile, you'd always wear a broad grin!" Bertha scowled at this, and seeing it, King stopped stock-still.
"Cook up that smile again!" he cried.

"Not another step till you do!" As the lady of the house was waiting for them on the veranda, this was embarrassing, so Bertha smiled, and then the whole group moved on.
So they kept on for the rest of the trip, King jollying Bertha whenever it was necessary, and the other girls making merriment for themselves.
Marjorie and Elsie soon became friends, for they were alike merry-hearted and pleasant-mannered.
It was about noon when they sold their last doll and turned their faces homeward.

Elsie and Bertha went with them, and when they reached Cousin Jack's house they found Kitty and May Perry already there.
"Here you are, my little peddlers! Here you are, with your empty carts!" cried Cousin Jack, as the children came upon the veranda.

"All sold out, I see." "Yes," said Marjorie, "and we could have sold more if we had had them." "Then there's nothing left for me to buy from you, and I really need a doll." "I'll make you one before I go home, Cousin Jack," said Marjorie; "and then you can keep it to remember me by." "All right, Mehitabel; good for you! I'll play with it every day,--and when I go to see my little friends I'll take it with me.