"Well, there, darling, you just sit still,not still enough, though, to give you a pain (Fly always said it gave her a pain to sit still),and I'll bring the girls and dollie over here to you.

It was Dollie Blossom's fifth birthday, and Dollie's mamma had arranged for a little party in honor of the event.

It was Dollie Blossom's fifth birthday, and Dollie's mamma had arranged for a little party in honor of the event.

"I am very glad that my little girl loves me;" replied her mother, "but I thought you were not very lonely while I was writing; you and dollie seemed to be having a good time together.

" "Yes, we had, mamma; but I always get tired of loving dollie after awhile.

O no, that is the way she used to do, but now A middle-sized "Topsy" comes pushing rudely forward, tossing her head and whispering disagreeable things to those she has to pass, and Susy hopes she will not be brought into any closer relations with her, when she happens to see her tenderly fondling a broken-armed, broken-legged dollie, while her work is being adjusted, and thinks somewhat better of her.

But when the sewing-lesson is ended and she notices one and another bring to light a little dollie-daughter to hug in her arms as she walks homeward, and sees the sociable interest of all the rest, she feels no further doubt about the mother-love in all these little Southern bosoms and resigns all care as to which one shall be hers, leaving the whole question to Mrs. Santa Claus.

It had lost some of its limbs and it was dressed in odds and ends, tacked together by the untaught little mother, but when I set the dollie on my knee and pretended to drink tea out of one of the tiny toy cups set forth from the same treasure-box, you could not find a more hilarious little mamma anywhere, though you should pick out one with all nursery stores at her command.