he won’t l>eat you. and soon you’ll have
me to take care of you. Tell Joey to be
sure and dust mother’s picture every
day. 1 shall be able to do it myself
without the steps soon, and tell Digges,
with my love, not to forget the flowers
for the place where you and I go every
morning, and where we all go when I
come back. I have got you a doll that
opens and shuts its eyes"
“I’d rather have you or Doony to
talk to." said Madcap the younger,
wrinkling up her small nose with an air
of disgust, “dolls never say nothink
“And a white rabbit,” resumed Mr.
Eyre, reading; “and I’m going to teach
you your alphabet; mother taught me
mine when 1 was only two. I shall
make the white rabbit a hutch in the
nursery. So that you can run in
through my room of a morning* to look
at it without catching a cold; and I
hope Joey keeps your feet dry, because
poor Dody died from getting his feet
wet, you know.”
“Going out without any shoes or
stockings to pick a wose for mamma,”
said little Madcap nodding.
