The races and prizes take time; and when at last they are dismissed, a slice of--" "No, Miss Deyncourt, _no_! Not more food!" "A slice of cake will be applied _externally_ to each of the children, which rite brings the festivities to a close.

There! I see the dolls are being carried out.

I must go;" and a moment later Ruth and Molly and Dare, who had been hovering near, were busily unpacking and shaking out the dolls; and Charles, after a little desultory conversation with Mabel Thursby, strolled away, with his hands behind his back and his nose in the air in the manner habitual to him.
And so the day wore itself out at last; and after a hymn had been shrieked the children were dismissed, and Ruth and Molly at length drove away.
"Hasn't it been delicious ?" said Molly.

"And my doll was chosen first.
Lucy Bigg, with the rash on her face, got it.

I wish little Sarah had had it.