They learned how to make their own clothes, by making their dolls' clothes,and the dolls themselves were frequently home-made, the eldest sister painting the faces much more prettily than those obtained at the shops; and there was a great delight in gratifying the fancy, by dressing the dolls, not in Quaker garb, but in all of the most brilliant colors and stylish shapes worn by the ultra-fashionable.

In fact, her pet doll is a cripple, with a stiff leg.

Do they make none, under the impression, correct in a low state of culture, that dolls for children become idols for men?

"'Dis yer baby doll,' sez she, 'is Hannibal.

The doll had been my Christmas offering to the woman child, and in the dusk of that joyous day my namesake had craved of its proud mother the boon of holding it a little while.

The dolls were Winnie Harry, and Jack and Doreen Loo.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.