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Dotty Dimple Out West

CHAPTER V
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So Mr.Parlin only said,-- "Broken the pitcher?
I'm sorry; but you did right to tell me.

Give me your hand, and let us go to breakfast." Major Lazelle was at table.

He patted Dotty's head, and said she looked like "a sweet-pea on tiptoe for a flight." He seemed very fond of quoting poetry; and nothing could have been more pleasing to Dotty, who loved to hear high-sounding words, even if they did soar above her head.
The party of three started in due time on their journey.

It was very much the same thing it had been yesterday; boys with tea-kettles of ice-water, boys with baskets of fruit and lozenges, and boys with newspapers.

There was a long train of cars, and every car was crowded.
"O, papa," sighed Dotty, after she had tried to count the passengers, and had been obliged to give it up because there were so many stepping off at every station, and so many more stepping in.


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