14 THE DOLL AND HER FRIENDS.

“ Garden seeds ?”
What is the use of them, when I can’t get a
spade ?”
“ Steel pens? You said this morning you could
not write with quills.”
“ T don’t like buying those kind of things with
my own money.” |
- “A box? Yesterday you wanted a box.”
“ T don’t care for boxes that won't lock, and L
can’t get one with a lock and key for sixpence.”
© A knife?” |
“ Sixpenny knives have only one blade ; I want
two.”
“ Sealing-wax? wafers? a penholder? a paint-
box? India-rubber? pencils ?”
“ Stupid things !”
“A ball? You might have a very good ball.”
“ Not a cricket-ball ; and I don’t care for any
other.”
“ What a particular fellow you are! I am sure
I could always find something to spend sixpence in.
String? One is always wanting string. You may
have.a good ball of whipcord.”
“ These sort of places don’t sell it.”
“Then, I say again, keep your money till you
want it.”
“No, that I’ll never do, when I came on pur-