52 Little Cousins.

 

And then she listened to all I
had to tell her about Bobbie, and
baby Willie, and Rosalinda, and
gave me her advice about dressing
Rosalinda like the Queen.

My letters, too, she read, and
said they were very nice, which
made me love mamma for writing
them all the more. And she
showed me her own letter that had
just come across the sea, with its
foreign stamps and thin paper.
Quite a nice talk it was alto-
gether, and we were ever so sorry
when we were called in to
dinner.

My boy-cousins were very polite