We had seen a mattress sent away from the house to be renovated, and had asked the nurse all sorts of questions about it.

We concluded it would be a fine thing to renovate the mattress of one of our doll-beds.

So we ripped one end open and pulled out all the cotton and excelsior it was stuffed with, and burned it in the nursery grate.

Then we began to look around the house for something to refill it with.
"Down in the library was a beautiful fur rug.

I don't remember what kind of a wild beast it was made from; I was so little, then, you know.