LEFT IN CHARGE.

Nurse had gone out of the nursery, and Rachel felt quite
an important little person, for Nurse had told her that
she should leave baby in her charge, and that she was on
no account to wake him up. Rachel sat very still for some
time watching her little brother, and thinking of what
Nurse had said to her. Then she remembered that, when
baby was undressed, she had at the same time taken the
clothes off her doll, and had forgotten to put dolly to bed.
So she got up very quietly, and picked her poor undressed
doll off the floor, and put on her nightdress. Then she
thought before dolly went to bed she ought to be warmed,
and so sat down before the nursery fire to do so. Just
then Nurse came back into the room, and saw what Rachel
was doing. ‘Why, Miss Rachel,” she said, “ if you put
your doll so close to the fire you will melt her. “ Nurse,
I was only warming her before she went to sleep like I
saw you do to baby just now,” said Rachel. At this Nurse
laughed so much that baby woke up, and she then told
Rachel that dolls and babies could not always be treated

‘exactly alike, so Rachel moved away from the © fire.