. Juvenile Instructor . SHE PUT HER WOODEN ARMSAROTND DOT chocolate and pepper mixed in ! The\were simply awful. But Arabella was so polite and smil-ino- Dot did not like to fefuse. She satand drank milk from wee litle cupsthat spilled all over her, and—wished-^he were not a doll! She wished so more and more, for it came into Miss Arabellas funnywooden head to wash her doll! Shetook soap and water and the end ofthe table cloth, and gave poor Dotsrosy face such a scrubbing that Dotlonged to scream! But she found shecould not do so. She couldnt makea sound! Then Arabella got a brush and comband


. Juvenile Instructor . SHE PUT HER WOODEN ARMSAROTND DOT chocolate and pepper mixed in ! The\were simply awful. But Arabella was so polite and smil-ino- Dot did not like to fefuse. She satand drank milk from wee litle cupsthat spilled all over her, and—wished-^he were not a doll! She wished so more and more, for it came into Miss Arabellas funnywooden head to wash her doll! Shetook soap and water and the end ofthe table cloth, and gave poor Dotsrosy face such a scrubbing that Dotlonged to scream! But she found shecould not do so. She couldnt makea sound! Then Arabella got a brush and comband began on the curly tangle of Dots. THE WOODEN LADY FED HER hair. This also was awful. Dottwisted and squirmed, and finallymade a desperate effort when a longthin hairpin was being run into hervcr\- head, and did scream. And Arabella suddenly answered inMamas own voice, Why, whats thematter, dear ? Is the toothache sobad? And there she was in hermothers arms. Dot was iglad to find lierself Dota,Tain! And there lay .Arabella on the])illow with her same old smile, per-fectly motionless—only a wooden dollagain. Dots mother smiled, when Dot toldher of the wonderful happenings. But Dot has never once believedthat it was only a toothache dream,l)ecause—there by the table lay one shoes. And under the bedlay one of the pillow-shams all rum-]Dled up. And the cakes were all her hair was all snarly—with ahairpin in it! If Doll Arabella didntdo all these things, why then, cvliodid?


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