"I don't know, but let's do what she says and then we'll find out,"
answered Mary Jane, who had great confidence in this big sister of
hers. They filled their skirts with apples of all sizes and hurried
back to the front yard where Alice, carrying a box of toothpicks, met
them.

"Now we'll all make dolls," said Alice as she spread out the picks.
"Use the biggest apples for the body; stick in two toothpicks for arms
and two for legs. And a middle-sized apple makes the head. Then take
another toothpick and mark out eyes and nose and mouth--so!" And she
set up the finished doll for the girls to see.

Frances and Mary Jane picked up apples and went to work too, and first
thing they knew there was a doll standing in front of each house. They
were just starting on animals, pigs and horses and cows which Alice
showed them how to make, when Grandmother came out with a pitcher of
lemonade and a basket of cookies. So the burr making turned into a
party which lasted till Mr. Westland came tooting along the road and
Frances had to go home.

EARNING MONEY

"Now if I only had a camera," said Alice as she and Mary Jane and her
grandmother were sitting out on the back porch one morning, shelling
peas for dinner, "I'd take a picture of you both. Wouldn't it make a
good one?"

Grandmother looked at Mary Jane. The sunshine splattered through the
cracks between the vine-covered lattice and shone on her bobbed brown
hair, on her pink play dress and on the bright green pea pods in her
lap. Mary Jane looked at her grandmother and saw the snow white hair,
the kindly face that smiled above the big work apron and the busy hands.

"Wouldn't it, though!" they both exclaimed at exactly the same minute.
And then they all three had a good laugh.

"All the same I wish I had a camera," insisted Alice.

"Does your mother think you're old enough to know how to use one?"
asked Grandmother.

"Old enough, Grandmother!" exclaimed Mary Jane. "Alice's twelve!" And
the way she said twelve showed that she thought twelve was very, very
old indeed.

Grandmother smiled and Alice added, "She's willing I should have one,
Grandmother, only I must buy it myself. And saving money out of my
allowance is slow work. I've a dollar now but I need seventy-five
cents more."

"Seems to me you should be able to earn that much," said Grandmother.

"Earn it?" asked Alice. "How?"

"Oh, by some sort of work," answered Grandmother.

"Oh, could