ing hold of hands; until Mary looked out of
the window and called them to come up to dinner.

Kitty was old enough, now, to dine with the grown folks, and behaved
like a perfect little lady, too; but on this occasion she was going to
take early dinner in the nursery.

She and Luly helped Mary pull out the nursery table, and set the three
little plates upon it. Walter's dinner was some mashed potato, with just
a tiny mite of chicken among it, minced very fine, and made into an
elegant hill on his plate, and a "wishing bone" to suck. Luly had the
same, only with more chicken; and Kitty cut up her own wing and slice of
breast, with her particular knife and fork, as nice as you please.

There was a great deal of merriment over the dinner, when Walter would
look away just as Mary gave him a spoonful of potato, watching her out
of the corner of his eye, though, and then bob round again and say
"Feed!" just as she had put it down, thinking he didn't want any more.
Then he insisted on making Gawow taste the wishing bone, and poked it
into both her eyes in succession, as if that was the usual way for
people to eat things. After they had finished the chicken and potato,
they had some nice custard pudding; and when dinner was over, Kitty
went right to the wash stand and _cleaned her teeth_, while Luly held up
her mouth to have Mary brush her little pearly teeth. Do you always do
this, little reader? If not, let me beg you to begin right away. Are
they done now? Very well, then let us go on with the story.

Pretty soon after, the children were dressed to go out walking; for it
was in the early spring time when all this happened, and still pleasant,
in the cold country, to take the middle of the day for going out. So
Kitty and Luly had their little blue poplin "coat-dresses" buttoned on,
and the soft white woollen hoods tied under their rosy faces, and Walter
was decked out in _his_ new blue coat; which pleased him so much that
he distinguished himself immediately afterward by walking all alone away
from the door to the window, quite across the room, and there sitting
down suddenly on the floor, much to his astonishment. At last they were
all ready and started off, Kitty and Luly hand in hand, and Walter in
his little carriage.

The road they liked best led along the top of a high bank, and was
called "Buena Vista" terrace. There were very pretty houses built along
here, shaded by tall trees; and if the children peeped cautiousl