le boy who
wasn't greedy."

And Baby, of course, was quite satisfied, as "Budder" said so.

I think I shall always remember that little cripple boy when I see
cocoa-nut cakes, and it will make me like them, if possible, better than
ever.

THE SIX POOR LITTLE PRINCESSES

"And all the Christ Child's other gifts . . .
. . . but still--but still--
The doll seem'd all my waking thoughts to fill. . . ."
_The Doll that ne'er was Mine._

THERE were six of them, beginning with Helen and ending with Baby, and
as Helen was only twelve and Baby already five, it is easy to understand
that they were all pretty near of a size. But they weren't really
princesses. That was all Jinny's planning. Indeed most things which were
nice or amusing or at all "out-of-the-way" were Jinny's planning.

Jinny's long name was Ginevra. She came third. Helen and Agatha were in
front of her, and below her came Elspeth and Belinda and Baby. Baby had
a proper name, I suppose, but I never heard it, and so I can't tell you
what it was. And as no one ever did hear it, I don't see that it much
matters. Nor would it have mattered much if Belinda had had no proper
name either, for she was never called anything but Butter-ball. The
story was that it was because she was so fat; and as, like many fat
people, she was very good-natured, she did not mind.

They were all together in the nursery, together but alone, as was rather
often the case; for they had no kind, comfortable old nurse to spoil and
scold them by turns, poor children, only a girl that Miss Burton, the
lady whom they lived with, kept "to do the nursery work," which does not
sound like being a nice nurse at all, though I suppose Miss Burton did
not understand the difference. There were a good many things she did not
understand. She liked the children to be neatly dressed, and to have
good plain food in plenty; she was very particular that they should do
their lessons and go for a walk every day when it was fine enough, but
that was about all she thought of. She did not think they needed any fun
except what they could make for themselves, and even then it must not be
too noisy; she could not understand that they could possibly be "dull,"
caged up in their nursery. "Dull," when there were six of them to play
together! She would have laughed at the idea.

They had few story-books and fewer toys. So they h