"Very well," said she; "then keep the doll as a recompense for the suffering you have endured.

I hope you will not see two such gloomy days again during the summer." "O, you darling auntie! May I keep the dolly ?" There was no sting now to mar Dotty's pleasure in her new possession.
Her troubles seemed to be over; life was blossoming into beauty once more.
"Good news! Good news!" she cried, rushing into the house, her head, with its multitude of curl-papers, looking like a huge corn-ball.

"Two duckies have pecked out!" "You don't say so!" said Susy, coolly.

"High time, I should think!" So thought the patient and astonished old hen, who had been wondering every day for a week if this wasn't an uncommonly "backward season." But at last the eggs, like riches, had taken to themselves wings.
The soft, speckled creatures found plenty of admiring friends to welcome them as they tried their first "peep" at the world.

They did not see much of the world, however, for some time, it must be confessed, on account of the corn-meal dough which the children sprinkled into their eyes.
"We won't let you starve, our ony dony Ducky Daddleses," said Dotty.
"Our deenty doiny Diddleses," said Katie after her, running hither and thither like a squirrel.
It was a time of great satisfaction.