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diff --git a/25444.txt b/25444.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e64cb52 --- /dev/null +++ b/25444.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1123 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Dolly and I, by Oliver Optic + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Dolly and I + A Story for Little Folks + +Author: Oliver Optic + +Release Date: May 12, 2008 [EBook #25444] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DOLLY AND I *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was +produced from scanned images of public domain material +from the Google Print project.) + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: Miss Fanny and others.] + +[Illustration: RIVERDALE STORY BOOKS + +DOLLY & I + +Boston, Lee & Shepard.] + + + + +The Riverdale Books. + +DOLLY AND I. + +A STORY FOR LITTLE FOLKS. + +BY + +OLIVER OPTIC, + + AUTHOR OF "THE BOAT CLUB," "ALL ABOARD," "NOW OR NEVER," "TRY + AGAIN," "POOR AND PROUD," "LITTLE BY LITTLE," &c. + + BOSTON: + LEE AND SHEPARD, + (SUCCESSORS TO PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.) + 1864 + + + Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by + + WILLIAM T. ADAMS, + + In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of + Massachusetts. + + ELECTROTYPED AT THE + BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. + + + + +DOLLY AND I. + + + + +I. + + +Do you know what _envy_ means? I hope you have never felt it, for it is +a very wicked feeling. It is being sorry when another has any good +thing. Perhaps you will know better what the word means when you have +read my story; and I hope it will help you to keep the feeling away from +your own heart. + +Not far from Mr. Lee's house, in Riverdale, lived a man by the name of +Green. He was the agent of one of the factories in the village. Mr. +Green had two little girls and three sons. The boys have nothing to do +with my story, and for that reason I shall not say a great deal about +them. + +Katy, Mr. Green's older daughter, was ten years old. She was a pretty +good girl, but she did not like to have others get good things, when she +did not have any herself. If any person gave one of her brothers an +apple, or an orange, she seemed to think she ought to have it. + +When she was a baby, she used to cry for every thing she saw, and would +give her parents no peace till they gave it to her. I am sorry to say +they were sometimes very weak on this point, and gave her things which +she ought not to have had, just to quiet her. + +Her father and mother hoped, when she grew older, she would not want +every thing that belonged to her brothers. If Charles had a plaything, +Katy wanted it, and would cry till she got it. Very often, just to make +her stop crying, her mother made poor Charley give up the thing. + +But as Katy grew older, she seemed to want every thing that others had +just as much as ever. She was now ten years old, and still she did not +like to see others have any thing which she could not have. It is true +she did not always say so, but she felt it just as much, and was very +apt to be cross and sullen towards those whom she envied. + +Nellie Green was not at all like her sister. She was only eight years +old, but there was not a bit of envy in her. She would give a part, and +often the whole, of her apples, oranges, candy, and playthings to her +sister, and to her brothers. She liked to see them happy, and when +Charley ate an apple, it tasted just as good to her as though she were +eating it herself. + +She was not selfish. She would always divide her good things with her +friends. Did you ever see a little boy or a little girl eating an apple +or some candy, and another little boy or girl standing by, and looking +just as if he wanted some? + +Nellie always gave her friends a part, and then she not only enjoyed +what she ate herself, but she enjoyed what they ate. This is the way to +make apples, oranges, and candy taste good. + +One New Year's Day, Katy's aunt, after whom she was named, sent her a +beautiful wax doll. It was a very pretty doll, and the little girl was +the happiest child in Riverdale when the welcome present reached her. + +There was another little girl in Riverdale who was almost if not quite +as happy; and that was Nellie, her sister. It is true, the doll was not +for her; she did not own any of it, and Katy would hardly let her touch +it; but for all this, Nellie was pleased to see her sister so happy. + +The dolly's name was Lady Jane; for Katy thought, as she was a very +fine doll, she ought to have a very fine name. So, when she spoke to the +doll,--and she talked a great deal with her,--she always called her Lady +Jane. + +The two little girls had five or six other dolls, but none of them were +any thing near such fine ladies as Lady Jane. Their heads were made of +porcelain, or rubber, or composition, and they had grown so old that +they were really ugly. + +Miss Lucy, who had a rubber head, looked as though she "had been through +the wars." Her nose was worn out, so that she had a great hole in the +end of it. I suppose, if she had wanted to sneeze, this hole would have +been very handy; but Miss Lucy was a very proper young lady, and never +sneezed in company. If she ever sneezed when alone, of course there was +no one present to know any thing about it. + +There was another hole right in the top of her head, so that if she had +had any brains, they would certainly have leaked out; but as Miss Lucy +was not a strong-minded woman, I suppose she had no use for brains. + +One of the family of dolls was a little black girl, whose name was +Dinah. She had seen hard service in her day, and did not look as though +is she would last much longer. + +Miss Fanny had once been a fine lady, but times had gone hard with her, +and her fine clothes were both ragged and dirty. But hard times were not +so very bad, for she wore the same smile as when her clothes had been +new and nice. + +Miss Mary was a poor cripple. By a sad accident she had broken one of +her legs. Katy placed her on a table one day, and either because the +height from the floor made her dizzy, or because she was laid too near +the edge, she had tumbled off, and one leg was so badly broken that +neither a wooden nor a cork one could be fastened in its place. + +Therefore Miss Mary could not walk about the room, and never went any +where, except when she was carried. But she was not half so badly off as +Miss Susie, who had broken her neck, and lost off her head. The head was +tied on with a string, but it kept falling off while the family were at +play; but Miss Susie did not seem to mind it at all. + +She got along a great deal better without her head than you and I could +without ours. Indeed, she wore the same smile upon her face whether the +head was on or off--which teaches us that we ought always to be cheerful +in misfortune. + +Besides these fine young ladies there were two or three rag babies; but +as you could not tell by the looks of them what they were thinking +about, I will not say any thing about them. They had no virtues worth +telling; they never ate soup with a fork, or gave money to the poor. + +Some of my readers may not think much of this family of dollies, but I +am sure Katy and Nellie had fine times with them. They used to spend +hours together with them, and the dollies used to do every thing that +any body could do. + +Miss Fanny used to visit a great deal, in spite of her dirty, ragged +clothes; so did Miss Lucy, with two holes in her head, and Miss Mary, +with her broken leg, and Miss Susie, with her broken neck. All of them +used to go a-visiting, except Miss Dinah, and she, being a black girl, +had to do the sweeping and tend the door. + +These ladies were all of them so bashful that they would not speak in +company, and Katy and Nellie had to do all the talking for them. + +But they used to "make believe" the dollies talked, and this did just as +well. They used to say just such things as the ladies did who called on +Mrs. Green, and never left without being urged to stay longer, and also +to call again; which they always promised to do. + +On the whole, they were very wonderful dollies; at least they were until +Lady Jane came, and she was such a fine lady, with her white silk dress +and her _real_ hair, that none of them could shine after that. + +[Illustration: "Lend us your Dolly."] + + + + +II. + + +One day Flora Lee came to see Nellie Green, and to spend the afternoon +with her. It was in the month of November, and the weather was too cold +to permit them to play in the garden; so they said they would have a +good time in the house. + +Katy Green had to go away, and could not play with them. Nellie was +very sorry for this, for she not only liked to have her sister with her, +but she also wanted the company of Lady Jane. + +She told Flora how sorry she was, and they agreed that it was too bad +Katy had to go away, for she was older than they, and could help them a +great deal in their plays. Besides, they wanted one fine lady among the +dollies, for they had a certain play which required just such a person. + +"I wish I had brought Miss Dolly with me. I guess she is fine enough," +said Flora. + +"I wish you had," replied Nellie; "but as you have not, we can't help it +now. I dare say Miss Fanny will do." + +"I'll tell you what you can do, Nellie." + +"What?" + +"You can just ask Katy to lend you her dolly. We won't hurt her a mite, +you know. We will use her just as if she were made of glass." + +Nellie did not know what to say. She did not like to ask Katy to let her +play with Lady Jane, for she knew how careful her sister was of her fine +lady. And she did not like to tell Flora her thoughts, lest she should +think her sister was selfish. She did not like to have any one think +hard of her sister. + +"We must have Lady Jane. I don't see how we can get along without her," +added Flora, a little puzzled by the silence of Nellie. + +"I don't like to ask Katy," said Nellie, at last. + +"Why not? She will let you have her. Of _course_ she will let you have +her," added Flora, warmly. + +"I don't think she will. You know we might break her neck, or lose off +her legs or arms; or we might dirty her white silk dress." + +"But we will be very careful. Let us go and ask her. It won't do any +harm to ask her, you know. She can't do any more than refuse." + +Nellie did not like to be refused, and she tried to prevent Flora from +going any farther in the matter. She was sorry to have it appear that +her sister was selfish, and she thought more of this than she did of +being refused. + +Flora said so much that at last she thought Katy might let her have the +doll, and they ran down stairs to the sitting room, to have the matter +settled. + +"Will you lend us your dolly, Katy?" asked Nellie, and the tones of her +voice showed how doubtful she was of the result of the question. + +"What dolly do you mean?" asked Katy. + +"Your wax dolly--Lady Jane." + +"I am very sure I shall not," replied Katy. + +"We will be very careful of her," added Flora. "We won't let her be +hurt a bit--you may depend on that." + +"I'm not going to let you have my dolly to break and spoil--I'm sure I +shall not," said Katy; who even seemed to be angry because she was +asked. + +"But don't I say we won't hurt it a bit?" continued Flora. "And when you +come over to my house, you shall have my dolly just as long as you want +her; and her house too, and all the chairs and tables and things." + +"I don't want them." + +"Do please to let us have Lady Jane," teased Nellie. "We want her ever +so much; and I know she won't get broken or dirty. Please to lend her to +us, Katy." + +"I shan't do any such thing; so it's no use to tease me. Why don't you +play with your own dollies? I won't lend Lady Jane--that's flat." + +Nellie felt so bad she could not help crying,--not because she could not +have the doll, but because her sister was so harsh and unkind. She would +not have cared so much if Flora had not been there, for she did not like +to have her see her sister behave in this manner. + +Poor Flora wanted to cry, too, when she saw how badly Nellie felt; but +she tried to be brave, and placed her arm round her friend's neck, as if +to let her know that she would be kind to her. + +"Come, Nellie, let's go up stairs again. We won't say any thing more +about it," said Flora; and she led her out of the room. + +"Now you won't like Katy, after this," replied Nellie. + +"O, yes, I will." + +"Katy would have lent us the dolly, only aunt Jane gave it to her, and +she is afraid it will be broken. If it hadn't been for this, she would +have lent us Lady Jane--I know she would," added Nellie, wiping away her +tears. + +"I dare say she would; but we won't think any thing more about it. And +when I come over again, some time, I will bring her something, just to +show her that I don't feel hard towards her." + +"What a dear, good girl you are, Flora! I was afraid you would hate her +after what she said." + +"O, dear, no, I should hope not. My mother tells me I must love those +who don't do what I want them to; and I try to do so; but it is very +hard sometimes. I wish you had a wax doll, Nellie. You ought to have +one, you are such a good girl, and love your sister so much, even when +she is not kind to you." + +"I wish I had one; it would be so nice to have one like Lady Jane. I +should be so happy; but then if only one of us can have one, I would +rather Katy had it than have it myself." + +"You are not a bit selfish, Nellie. Do you know what _selfish_ means? I +do." + +"I guess I do. It means when you have an apple or any candy to refuse to +give a part to your sister." + +"Yes, or to any body that happens to be with you. Candy is good, but +don't you like to see others eat it almost as well as you do to eat it +yourself?" + +"Well, yes, I think I do." + +"Then you know just what I mean, and I guess we'll play 'visiting' now." + +"So we will; and Miss Fanny shall be the great lady, and Dinah shall be +her servant." + +"Yes, and this shall be her house," said Nellie, as she placed Miss +Fanny in a large arm chair which they were to "make believe" was her +elegant mansion. + +"You shall stay here, and I will bring Miss Mary to visit Miss Fanny." + +Flora bounded over to the other side of the room, which was supposed to +be the home of the other dolls, and Miss Mary, in spite of her broken +leg, was soon on her way to visit the fine lady. + +"Ting, a ling, a ling!" said Flora, which meant that the caller had rung +the bell, and Dinah appeared at the door. + +"Is Miss Fanny at home?" asked Flora, speaking for the lady with the +broken leg. + +"No, marm, she is not," replied Nellie, who had to speak for Dinah, +because, though her mouth was very large, she could not speak for +herself. + +"What an awful fib!" cried Flora. "There she is; don't I see her through +the door?" + +"But that's just the way some of the fine folks do," replied Nellie, +laughing at Flora's earnestness. + +"It is an awful story, and I wouldn't say it even in fun." + +Nellie said she would not say it again, only she wanted to have Miss +Fanny do just as the big folks did. And so they played all the +afternoon, though Lady Jane did not honor them with her company. All the +dollies paid lots of visits; and Flora went home. + +[Illustration: The Christmas Present.] + + + + +III. + + +When Flora reached home, she told her mother what a nice time she had, +and what splendid visits Miss Lucy and Miss Mary and Miss Susie had made +to Miss Fanny. + +She could not help telling her mother what a good girl Nellie was, and +how she loved her sister, even when she was unkind and spoke pettishly +to her. + +Then she told her how much she wished Nellie had a wax doll, with real +hair, and a white silk dress. Mrs. Lee thought such a good girl ought to +have one, and the very next time she went to the city, she bought the +prettiest wax doll she could find for her. + +Flora was full of joy when she saw the doll, and learned whom it was +for. She was a great deal happier than if the doll had been bought for +herself; and she wanted to run right over to Mr. Green's with the +beautiful present. She longed to see the eyes of Nellie sparkle as she +saw the doll, and to hear what she would say when told it was for her. +But Mrs. Lee thought they had better keep the doll till Christmas, and +let her find it with her stocking in the morning. + +"But then I shan't see her when she first gets the dolly," said Flora. + +"That is true; but you must write a little note, which shall be pinned +on the doll's dress." + +"That will be splendid, mother! And I will go right away and write the +note now." + +Flora got a pencil and a piece of paper, and seated herself in the +corner. She worked away for half an hour as busy as a bee, and then she +carried the note to her mother. She was not much of a writer, having +been to school only a year. She could only print the note. + +Flora was very fond of writing notes, and long before she could make a +single letter, she would fill up a piece of paper with pothooks and +spiders' legs, and send them to her mother and Frank. + +She did not spell all the words right, but her mother told her how to +correct them, and then she printed the note over again, on a nice sheet +of gilt-edged paper. Thinking my little friends might want to see this +note, I place a copy of it in the book, just exactly as she wrote it. + +[Illustration: Dear Nellie + +This Dolly Is From Me. I Love You Very Much And I Wish You A Merry +Christmas. + +Flora Lee.] + +When Christmas morning came, Nellie found the doll in a chair, close by +her stocking. I can't tell you how pleased she was, but you can all +guess. Then she took the note from the dress, and read it. She was more +pleased than ever to find it was from Flora. + +She almost cried with joy as she puzzled out the note, and thought how +kind Flora and her mother were to remember her. + +"What a dear you are, Miss Dolly!" said she, as she took up the doll and +kissed her, just as though she had been a real live baby. "You and I +shall be first-rate friends, just as long as we live. I will take such +good care of you! Dear me! Why, mother! Only think!" + +"What is the matter, Nellie?" asked Mrs. Green, who was almost as much +pleased as her daughter. + +"Did you see that?" + +"What, child? What do you mean?" + +"Did you see those eyes?" + +"Yes, I see them." + +"Why, just as true as I am alive, she moved them!" + +"I think not, my child. She is a very handsome doll, but I don't think +she could move her eyes, if she tried ever so hard." + +"But she did; I know she did;" and Nellie took hold of her head to +examine it more closely. As she did so, she bent the body a little. +"There! as true as I live, she moved them again!" + +Mrs. Green took the doll, and found that the eyes did really move. It +was funny, but it was true. Mrs. Lee and Flora knew all about it. The +eyes were made of glass, and there was something inside of the doll +which moved them when the body was bent. + +"Let me see," said Katy, who had been looking on in silence all this +time. Nellie gave her the doll at once; and she bent the body and saw +the eyes move twenty times. The happy owner of Miss Dolly waited with +patience till her sister had done with her. + +"Why didn't aunt Jane get me one like that, I wonder," said Katy, when +she gave the doll to Nellie. + +"I suppose she could not afford to buy one like this, for she is not so +rich as Mrs. Lee." + +"But you shall have her to play with just when you want her," said +Nellie. + +"Pooh! I don't want your old dolly," snarled Katy. "She isn't half so +good as mine. I would rather have Lady Jane than have her, any day." + +"Why, then, did you wish your aunt Jane had given you one like this?" +asked her mother. + +"I don't care for her old dolly! She may keep it for all me," replied +Katy. + +"But it shall be yours just as much as mine, Katy," said Nellie, in +tones so gentle and sweet that her sister ought to have kissed her for +them, and loved her more than she ever loved her before. + +But she did not. She was envious. She was sorry the doll had been given +to Nellie--sorry because it was a prettier one than her own. It was a +very wicked feeling. She had some presents of her own, but her envy +spoiled all the pleasure she might have taken in them. + +Nellie was almost sorry the doll had been given to her, when she saw how +Katy felt about it. Mrs. Green talked to the envious girl till she +cried, about her conduct. She tried to make her feel how odious and +wicked envy made her. + +Whenever Katy saw the new doll, she seemed to be angry with her sister. +Poor Nellie's pleasure was nearly spoiled, and she even offered to +exchange her doll for Katy's, but her mother would not let her do so. + +In a few days, however, she seemed to feel better, and the two sisters +had some good times with their dolls. I say she seemed to feel better, +but she really did not. She did not like it that Nellie's doll was a +finer one than her own. + +Yet Nellie was happier, for she thought Katy was cured of her ill +feeling. Then she loved her doll more than ever. She was a cunning +little girl, and she thought so much of her new friend that she always +used to say "Dolly and I." + +When her mother asked her where she had been, she would reply, "Dolly +and I have been having a nice time up stairs." "Dolly and I" used to do +ever so many things, and no two little ladies could ever enjoy +themselves more than did Dolly and Nellie. + +I am sorry to say that Katy did not like Dolly at all. She could never +forgive her for moving her eyes, because Lady Jane could not move hers. +It is true that, after she saw how silly and wicked her envy made her +appear to others, she tried very hard not to show it. + +We may be just as wicked without showing our sin to others, as we can be +when we let the world see just what we are. When we are wicked, the sin +is more in the heart than in the actions. + +Men may seem to be very good when they are really very bad, though +people almost always find out such persons. Katy was just as wicked, +just as envious, when her sister thought she was kind and loving, as she +was on that Christmas morning, when the doll was found in the chamber. + +You will be surprised and sorry when you see just how wicked her envy +made her. I shall tell you about it in the next chapter, and I hope it +will lead you to drive any such feeling from your own hearts. If you +have such feelings, they will make you very unhappy; and the sooner you +begin to get rid of them, the better. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration: What Katy did.] + + + + +IV. + + +Lady Jane and Miss Dolly were kept in the lower drawer of the bureau, +for they were very fine young ladies, and Mrs. Green wished to have them +kept clean and nice. + +One day, about two weeks after Miss Dolly was given to Nellie, both she +and Katy had been playing with the dolls. When the bell rang for tea, +they ran down stairs; but before they went they put the dolls in the +drawer. As they were in a hurry, they were not very careful, and the +dresses of both the dolls were sadly tumbled. + +Mrs. Green, who was in the room, saw in what manner Miss Dolly and Lady +Jane had been thrown into the drawer; and before she went down to tea, +she took them both out, smoothed down their dresses, and put them back +in a more proper manner. + +Katy and Nellie had had some talk about their dolls; and the envious +girl had said hers was better than her sister's. Nellie did not dispute +with her about it, but she saw that Katy had not got over that bad +feeling yet. + +The children ate their suppers, and not a word more was said about the +dolls; but Katy looked very sour. She was thinking about Miss Dolly's +eyes, and wishing Lady Jane's eyes would move like the other's. + +She finished her supper, and ran up stairs again. By this time it was +quite dark in the room where the dolls were kept, and Nellie and her +mother wondered why she went up stairs at that late hour. + +Katy was still thinking of those eyes. She thought her aunt Jane was +real mean not to buy her such a doll; and then she was very sorry that +Flora's mother had bought it for her sister. + +While she was thinking these wicked thoughts she went to the bureau, and +opened the lower drawer. It was so dark she could hardly see the dolls, +but she took out one of them. + +"Your dolly shall not be better than mine any longer," said she to +herself. + +As she said this, she took the scissors from the work basket on the +bureau, and finding one of the eyes with her fingers, she struck one of +the points right into it. Then she turned the scissors, so as entirely +to destroy the eye. Not content with this, she spoiled the other eye in +the same manner. + +"Now your doll isn't so good as mine, any how," said she to herself, as +she put the poor spoiled lady back into the drawer. + +I would not have a little girl feel as she felt then for all the world. +Her heart was full of envy and wickedness. To gratify her ill feeling +she had thrust the scissors into the eyes of the doll. She knew how +badly her sister would feel, but she did not care for this. Now Lady +Jane was the best doll, and she did not care for any thing else. + +She staid in the room but a few moments. Closing the drawer, she +hastened down stairs, and took a seat by the fire. She tried to look as +though nothing had happened; but she was sour and sullen, for she felt +that she had done a very naughty act. + +"Come, Katy; let us go up stairs, and play with the dollies again," said +Nellie, when she had got through with her supper. + +"I don't want to," replied she, without even looking at her sister. + +"Do come, Katy." + +"I tell you I don't want to," snarled she. + +"You can bring your dolly down stairs, and play with her here, Nellie," +said her mother. + +"May I, mother?" + +"You may--take a light with you." + +"I don't want any light, mother; I can find her just as well in the +dark;" and away she ran to get the doll. + +Don't you think Katy trembled then? She did tremble, like a leaf, and +wished she had not done the naughty deed. In a moment Nellie would +return with poor Miss Dolly, whose eyes had been spoiled with the +scissors. She did not think it would be found out so soon, and she could +not think what to say before the doll came down. + +She felt just as though she should sink through the floor, when Nellie +came into the room with the doll in her arms. There would be an awful +time in a moment, and her father and mother would want to know who had +spoiled Miss Dolly's eyes. + +They knew she had been up stairs since tea, and they would charge her +with the naughty act. She meant to deny it, for those who are wicked +enough to do such things are almost always wicked enough to lie about +them. + +"Now won't you and I have a nice time, Dolly?" said Nellie, as she +rushed into the sitting room, with the doll in her arms. "Come, Katy, +let's play Dolly is the queen of England." + +"I don't want to play." + +"Well--won't you make me a crown for her?" + +"I can't." + +Katy was waiting for her sister to find out the mischief that had been +done, and she dreaded the moment when she should do so. She did not dare +to look at her, for fear her looks might betray her. + +"You shall be queen without any crown," said Nellie, as she placed the +doll on the table. "This pincushion shall be your throne. There, you +look just like a queen--don't she, mother?" + +"I think she does," replied Mrs. Green, with a smile. "I hope she will +be as good as Queen Victoria." + +"She will, mother--only she ought to have a crown." + +"I have got a piece of gilt paper up stairs, and I will make her one. +I'm going up in a minute." + +Katy, not daring to look yet, did not know what to think of this talk. +How could the doll look like a queen when her eyes had been punched out +with the scissors? It was very strange to her, and she stole a glance at +the queenly Miss Dolly on the table. + +There she was, seated on her pincushion throne, just as if nothing had +happened. Her eyes were just as bright as ever, and as Nelly bent her +body, she moved them as well as ever she could. + +Katy did not know what to make of it. She had certainly driven the +scissors into the eyes of the doll as hard as she could; but there was +Miss Dolly as good as new. She could not explain it, and it was of no +use to try. + +Mrs. Green brought down the scissors, and cut out the crown. Then Miss +Dolly certainly looked like a queen, and Nelly spent a very pleasant +hour with her majesty, till it was time for her to go to bed. + +Katy was very unhappy. She had not done what she meant to do, and she +was filled with doubt. But she did not have to wait long to find out +what she had done. When Mrs. Green went up stairs with the children, +Miss Dolly had to be put to bed first, for she was a queen. + +When the bureau drawer was opened, what do you think they saw? There lay +Lady Jane, with both of her eyes punched out! + +Katy burst into tears when she saw that her doll was entirely spoiled. +Then she found that she had made a mistake. In the darkness she had +punched out the eyes of Lady Jane instead of Miss Dolly. This is the +way that wicked people often punish themselves instead of others. + +Her mother had changed the places of the dolls in the drawer, and this +was the reason why Katy had made the mistake. Don't you think it served +her right? + +Katy felt so badly that she could not tell any of the lies she had made +up, and the truth was found out by her mother. Mrs. Green scolded her +for what she had done, and for what she meant to do. The naughty girl +cried herself to sleep that night, but poor Lady Jane was utterly +ruined. + +Nellie felt almost as bad as her sister, and said all she could to +console her. The next day Katy was so ashamed of herself that she did +not wish to see any body. But in a few days she got over it; and her +mother hoped the affair would do her a great deal of good. Whenever she +showed a spirit of envy, Mrs. Green reminded her of her doll, and she +tried to conquer the feeling; but it took many years to cure her. + +When you envy others, although you may not punch out the eyes of your +own doll, you hurt yourself more than any one else. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Dolly and I, by Oliver Optic + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DOLLY AND I *** + +***** This file should be named 25444.txt or 25444.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/4/4/25444/ + +Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was +produced from scanned images of public domain material +from the Google Print project.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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