40 THE DOLL AND HER FRIENDS.

It was on this occasion that I most peculiarly
felt the advantage of that insensibility to pain
which distinguishes my race. What mortal could
have borne such an infliction without struggling
and screaming? I, on the contrary, took it all in
good part, and shewed no signs of feeling’ even at
the fatal moment when my foot snapped in two,
and Rose, with a face of utter dismay, held up my
own toes before my eyes.

“Oh, my poor Seraphina!” she exclaimed, “ what
shall we do?”

“Glue it on again,” said Willy. “ You had
better have taken my advice at first, but now
you must make the best of it. Glue is your only
friend.”

So Rose glued the halves of my foot together,
lamenting over me, and blaming: herself so much
all the time, that it seemed rather a comfort to her
when Margaret, coming into the room, agreed with
her that she had been foolish and awkward. Mar-
garet said that ribbon might have been tied over
my feet from the first, without using glue or gimlet
either ; and Rose called herself more stupid than ever,
for not having thought of such an easy contrivance.

My foot was glued, and for the purpose of
standing, answered as well as ever; and Rose
sewed me up in a pair of blue silk boots, and de-