. "When one lives in an
India-rubber house," she said, "a few people more or less make no
difference at all. She wished Dotty's 'nipperkin' of happiness to be
full for once."
And it was: it ran over. There were joyful days for the next
fortnight. I could never draw the picture of them with my pen, even if
I had the paper left to put it on. They kept house under the trees;
they baked their food in a brick oven Horace made; they gave a party;
they had boat rides; they had swings; they never went into the house
unless it rained; they were never cross to one another, or rude to
Jennie Vance; it was like living in fairy-land.
It was a glorious summer. I almost wish it had not come to an end;
though, in that case, I suppose I should never have stopped telling
about it. By and by vacation was over, and Tate went off in the same
stage with the Parlins. You could never guess what she and Dotty each
put so carefully into their bosoms, to keep "forever." It was a
splinter of the dear old barn where they had had such good times
jumping!
Three weeks afterwards the "Oriole" drove up to grandpapa Parlin's
again, and this time for the Cliffords. Flyaway danced into it like a
piece of thistle-down. Everybody threw good-by kisses, and the stage
rattled away.
And after that, dears, as Flyaway will say to her grandchildren,
"things went into a mist." And this is all I have to tell you about
the Parlins, the Cliffords, and the Willowbrook home.
THE END.
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DOTTY DIMPLE STORIES.
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1. DOTTY DIMPLE AT HER GRANDMOTHER'S.
2. DOTTY DIMPLE AT HOME.
3. DOTTY DIMPLE OUT WEST.
4. DOTTY DIMPLE AT PLAY.
5. DOTTY DIMPLE AT SCHOOL.
6. DOTTY DIMPLE'S FLYAWAY.
BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
LITTLE PRUDY STORIES.
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LITTLE PRUDY.
LITTLE PRUDY'S SISTER SUSIE.
LITTLE PRUDY'S CAPTAIN HORACE.
LITTLE PRUDY'S COUSIN GRACE.
LITTLE PRUDY'S STORY BOOK.
LITTLE PRUDY'S DOTTY DIMPLE.
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