, 1877-10-12
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My name is Hunt. Yes, sir; Anthon.
Hunt. | am settler on this Western
prairie. Wilds2 Yes, sir; it's little els'
than wilds now, but you should have seer
il when / and my wife first moved lI
here. There was not house within sigh
for miles. Even now we have not many
neighbors; but those we have are down
right good ones. To appreciate youi
neighbors as you ought, sir, you must
live in these lonely places, so far removed
from the haunts Of man.
What am about to tell of happened
ten years ago, / was going to a distant
town, or settlement to sell some fifty
head Of cattle--fine creatures, sir, as ever
you saw. The journey was more rare
event with me than it is now and my
wife had always plenty of commissions
to charge me with in the shape of dry
goods aud groceries and such like things.
Our youngest child was sweet little
gentle thing, who had been named after
her Aunt Dorothy. We called the child
Dolly. This time my commission in
cluded one for her---a doll. She had
never had areal doll; that is a bought
doll; only the rag bundles her mother
made for her. For some days before my
departure the child could talk of nothing
else- or we, either, for the matter Of that
for she was a great pet, the darling of
us all. 1t was to, be big, big doll,
with golden hair and blue eyes. shall
never forget the child's words the morn
ingI was starting, as she ran after me To
the gate, or the pretty picture she made.
There are some children sweeter and
pret,ier than Others, sir, as you can't but
have noticed, and Dolly was one.
"A very great big doll, please, daddy
she callout after me; "and please bring it
very soon."
turned to nod a yes Ito. her az she
stood in her clean Whitley brown piDafore
agsinst the gate, her nut-brown hair fall
ing in curls about her neck, and the light
breeze stirring them.
"A brave doll,"L. |. answered, "for my
little one--amost as big as Dolly"
Nobody would believe, dare say, how
Sull my thoughts we're of that promised
doll as rode along, or what nice one
meant to buy. IL was not often l spent
money in what my good, thrifty wife
would have called waste; but Dolly was
Dolly, and meant to do it now.
The cattle sold, | went about my pur-
chAses. snd soon had no eud of parcels to
be packed in The saddle.bags. Tea, sugar,
nee, cAndles--but need not weary you
nr. with telling Of them, together with
the calico for shirts and night-gowns, and
uhe delaine for the children's new frocks
Las. of al, I usut about the doll-and
found a beauty, II was not as big a.
Dolly, or half as big; but Il had fsxeE
enrss aud sky-blUe eyes; and by dint d
EsA.liHg q sfIt yoS eosld open or shut th'
eJes at Eill.
~Dsit up carefully" said 10 the store
kec'ei Ny nttle daughter would ~
n1ay " sby harm comes % H.
The cty o. ~ pretty wsll ended hefon
a my xOsk was dons and jast Cor . mo
mra' os tao, hssifaird vhother sboalt
aes star in tat tgwn and start fof home ID
ne EotniaE II sould have begn thl
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