The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-11-10
i am Tinr. suppose rou axe

q am Tiny. suppose you are.
ITS Aleckp' cried Lottie '.And,
Aleck. ske'S Tiny. Why don't you
shake hands?''
Lottie might well be surprised at my
stupidity. There | stood, stock still,
staring at the young lady, who was re-
garding ME -uriously.
'Lottie told me that you had sent for
me-that you wished particularly to see
me. she said, in half-doubtful. apollo
getic tone
Il did send for YOU; but | must con-
fess that l have been laboring under a
strange mistake l had an idea that
Tiny was little girl.
She broke into a laugh, and Lottie
said. with a shocked expression
why. brother Aleck, was that the
reason you brought her doll and q
Noah's ark?i
felt my face suddenly grow hot and
flushed, as the young ladv'S eyes wan
dered to the articles in question, lying
conspicuously arrayed upon the table.
Then. she looked at me. For an instant
her lips dimpled and quivered in the
attempt to suppress her mirth; but the
next she broke into an irresistible fit of
laughter, in which ! was compelled to
join.
'.Lottie,n l said, drawing her to me,
and speaking with intense gravity,
why did you not tell me that Cousin
Tiny was a grown-up young ladygn
why. didn't you know? Don't YOU
remember when sister Sophie wrote for
them to come, it was Tiny that wrote
back, because her mamma had head
ache? And she said they would be here
on Tuesday, and then we knew she
wasn't little gIrl .
No. Lottie; your letter to me did not
give that important information. But
YOU did say that Tiny and you had fine
times in the garden
so we did have" interrupted Lottie.
stoutly. We've put up the swings, and
Sophie and Tiny read aloud there. She
tells me fairy tales, and makes my dolls
dresses"
''But did you not tell me that she was
sorry that she had not brought her own
doll with her?'
Yes; because she has great, big,
lovely French doll-the last one she
ever had; and she kept it to give it to
some little girl, and she means to give
it to me.
But you said she loved French bon
bons?" | continued, with redoubled SER
iousness.
Lottie drew forth pocket handker-
chief Of about six inches square, and APP
piled it to her eyes.
IL didn't mean to make you think
she was a little girl. She said she loved
bon-bons"
'"And so l do, Lottie, and am hot
ashamed to confess it, said Tiny. still
laughing, and drawing the child to heI
caressingly, on which the tears instantly
gave place to sunshine.
There's whole boxful of 'emr' she
said, enthusiastically. such lovely
onesn'
And when, presently, my mother and
Mrs. Porter and Sophie came in, they
found Lottie kneeling in chair at the
table, sorting and admiring her share
of the confectionery, and Tiny MUNICH
ing chocolate bon-bons, and every now
and then breaking into little musical
laugh as her eyes wandered to the
Noah's ark and the doll, with which
had so considerably provided her.
OF course, the joke was instantly told
by the irrepressible Lottie, and duly en-
joyed by the rest.
The mistake. mother explained,
"all came of my not remembering that
Cousin Oliver as well as Hector, had q
daughter Adaline. And only think,
Aleck, that had trundle-bed put up
for Tiny"'
Tiny and her mother were persuaded
to stay with US two weeks; and not long
after they left us l paid them visit al
their own home.
That was nearly five years ago, and
now there is second Tiny, more de
serving the name, who is at this mo
ment playing with the very doll anc
Noah's ark that l once bought for hel
mother.