Jennie found 'em in the rag-bag, and tried to make me take half; but of course I never; and now she's run off with 'em!" "Found three dollars in the rag-bag?
I guess not." "Yes, grandma; for I saw her just as she was going to find em', in a pair of pockets.

I should have seen 'em myself if she hadn't looked first." "Indeed! Is this really so?
But she ought to have come and given them to me." "That was just what I told her, over and over, grandma, and over again.

But she's a dreadful naughty girl, Jennie Vance is.

If there's anything bad she can do, she goes right off and does it." "Hush, my child." "Yes'm, I won't say any more, _only_ I don't think my mother would like to have me play with little girls that take money out of rag-bags." Dotty drew herself up again in a very stately way.
"Jennie _said_ she was going to buy you a silk dress and so forth; but she does truly lie so, 'one to another,' that you can't believe her for certain, not half she says." Grandma looked over her spectacles and through the window, as if trying to see what ought to be done.
[Illustration: "YOU CAN'T BELIEVE HER FOR CERTAIN."] "You did right to tell me this, my child," said she; "but I wish you to say nothing about it to any one else: will you remember ?" "Yes'm," replied Dotty, trying to read her grandmother's face, and feeling a little alarmed by its solemnity.

"What you going to do, grandma?
Not put Jennie in the lockup--are you?
'Cause if you do--O, don't you! She said 'twas her sharp eyes, and she didn't mean to steal, and 'twasn't your pockets, and she promised she'd give me half--yes, she truly did, grandma." "Go, dear, and bring me my bonnet from the band-box in my bed-room closet." Then Mrs.Parlin folded the sheet she was making, put on her best shawl and bonnet, and kid gloves, and taking her sun umbrella, set out for a walk.