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Dick and Brownie

CHAPTER V
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Oh, you have lots to learn yet.

There's only one thing I am sorry for, you won't be a brownie any longer, nor yet a fairy dressed in green"; and with the same she whisked the cover off the big box she had been carrying, and there lay neatly folded three little plain print frocks, one lavender, one pink, and one blue.
Huldah cried aloud in sheer amazement.

She had never seen anything so pretty in her life.

Underneath the frocks were some plain holland aprons.

Huldah began to fear it was all a beautiful dream, from which she would awaken presently.
"Open that other box, please, Mrs.Perry," said Miss Rose, briskly; and in that one was a neat sun-hat, with a black ribbon bow on it, and beneath the hat were two little pink cotton petticoats, some calico garments, some stockings and handkerchiefs.
Huldah by that time was in such a state of excitement, she could no longer exclaim, she could hardly breathe, and when the last of the parcels was opened, and disclosed a pair of good boots and a pair of slippers, the tears which had gradually been welling up in her eyes fell over, and with a sob she threw her arms round Mrs.Perry and buried her face on her breast.
"Oh, it's too much, it's too much, I can't take it all! I can't do anything for anybody, and I can't pay for nothing.


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