We was playing 'thimble-coop.' _She_ broked it all to smash!" "O, mother," said Susy, running out to the kitchen; "Dotty's making up fibs as fast as she can speak! You'll have to shut her up in the closet." "Not so fast, my dear.

Let us wait till we hear both sides of the story." And, as it turned out, Dotty really did not deserve to be punished for wrong stories.

She and Prudy had each assisted in breaking the teapot; one had knocked it off the bureau, and the other had stepped on it.

But Dotty, who gloried in "a fuss," had begged to be the one to tell Susy the startling news.

She wished to see her eyes flash, and hear her expressions of surprise.