CHOCOLATE CREAMS!

TOT the kind of chocolate creams that you buy ina
shop, but four nice little brown-faced girlies, in white
frocks. They looked as sweet as any chocolate, and their
frocks were like the cream part. I felt like eating them
right up! You see I was very lonely, as we were away
«down South in Dixie” where mamma took me to get
well, one winter, I was sitting on the verandah doing
nothing—when the gate opened, and the chocolate creams
came walking in one by one, and stood all in a row before
me. One was shy and held her finger in her mouth all the
time. One giggled behind a fan, one turned her back to
hide a big bunch of flowers, and smiled at me over her
and the other one had a muf/—on that very

 

shoulder-
warm day !

They all stood still, till I said “Good-morning.” Them
they all giggled, and the one with the flowers said, ““ Momnim’
youl” Thenls ae “What's your name?” and the one
with the muff said, “Sara Ann ‘Mufiina—calls me Muff for
short, "kase I likes a all to carry.” Then she nudged the
one with the flowers, and she said, “Name's Judy Bhue-
bell, “kase [likes flowers so much.” The one with the fan
never took it down from her face, but said from belhiind itt iim
a muffly voice, “My name's Ethelberta Fancy—calls me
Fan for short—kase I always has a fan,”"—and them she
giggled. The one with her finger in her mouth would m't
say a word—and the flower girl “had to tell her mame, Slhe
said, “Name’s Tilly Pepp’mint—kase she lowes pep mints
so an’ she always has one in her mouth, an’ can’t spealk |!”

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