. Tattine . CHAPTER VI. IT IS THEIR NATURE TO. PATTINE was getting on beautifully with her attempt touse Grandma Lutys name at the proper time, andin the proper place, and she was getting on beautifullywith Grandma herself as well. She loved everything abouther, and wished it need not be so very long till shecould be a grandma herself, have white hair and wearsnowy caps atop of it, and kerchiefs around her neck, anduse gold eye-glasses and a knitting-basket. Grandma Luty,you see, was one of the dear, old-fashioned are not many of them nowadays. Most of themseem to like to dr
. Tattine . CHAPTER VI. IT IS THEIR NATURE TO. PATTINE was getting on beautifully with her attempt touse Grandma Lutys name at the proper time, andin the proper place, and she was getting on beautifullywith Grandma herself as well. She loved everything abouther, and wished it need not be so very long till shecould be a grandma herself, have white hair and wearsnowy caps atop of it, and kerchiefs around her neck, anduse gold eye-glasses and a knitting-basket. Grandma Luty,you see, was one of the dear, old-fashioned are not many of them nowadays. Most of themseem to like to dress so you cannot tell a grandmotherfrom just an ordinary everyday mother. If you have agrandmother—a nice old one, I mean—see if you cannot gether into the cap and kerchief, and then show her howlovely she looks in them. But what I was going totell you was that Grandma Lutys visit was all a joy toTattine, and so when, just at daylight one morning, the TATTINE. 45. setter puppies in their kennel at the back of the housecommenced a prodigious barking, Tattines first thought wasfor Grandma. Its a perfect shame to have them wake her up,she said to herself, and I know a way to stop them,so, quiet as a mouse, she stole out of bed, slippedinto her bed-slippers and her nurses wrapper, that waslying across a chair, and then just as noiselessly stoledownstairs, and unlocking the door leading to the back 46 TATTINE. porch, hurried to open the gate of the kennel, for simplyto let the puppies run she knew would stop their was right about that, biit just as she swung thegate open, a happy thought struck those four little puppiesminds, and as she started to run back to the house, allfour of them buried their sharp little teeth in the frill ofPriscillas wrapper. Still Tattine succeeded in making her way across thelawn back to the door, although she had four puppies intow and was almost weak from laughing. She knew perfectly well what a funny pi
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