Daily Kennebec journal., 1890-01-18
VERY LITTLE FOLKS.


She wanted . real china doll. Her cou-
sia Juiis had 4 doll and she wanted one.
She never liked rag dolls, and then the
boys we're always catching them BY ope
arm ard throwing them sssy. One day
they said they we're Rcinz to make scare
Grove of all they could hnd. Nos Fan did
rot know what . scare CROW vas, she had
never seen one. So her vivid Imagination
fashioned il into 8 very large. Wild animal.
With long horns and all covered ov With
sharp quills.
Little people will think of such strange
things you knor. and this little girl Vas
juss like you, not . make believe, story
book girl but real girl With blue eyes.
and hair just the color Of the sunshine.
"I guess the boys won't make scafe-besR'
of my dolls And with very determined
look upon her smail, pale face. she took
every one of her rag dolls And rolled them
up in one OF her pinafores and tucked them
a~ay under the caves of the attic, where
she spends much Of her time in sirsing and
telling stories to herself. But - said In
the fr.t place she wanted . real china doll.
Sometime after this she woke up one
morning. and the first words she heard
were ''Pspa's gone wxy-way on 10 Bos-
ton. - and one of the boys stood beside her
crib. pointing his forehnger directly to-
ward The upper corner of the room. bu
looking straight out of the window and up
the road where he had watched his papa
Ut of sight an hour before. Little Fan
looked sober for q moment. and then open
ed her eyes very wide and asked il Mr.
Boston's FOLKS kept dolls. II guess So
said her mamma from another room.
How many times shall sleep fore papa
comes again. II don't know" again came
from the same room. Little Fan never
knew how long b. papa stayed for she was
not old enough to reckon time by its diri
sions She only knew that she slept lots
OF times" before he came home. On
morning she woke and heard Q good deal Of
talking in the sitting room. and once in
q uhile the boys Sould hush each other up
and .av See who'll keep from telling
first," but she hardly entered the room
when botb boys broke out with "Paps's
got home and brought you . dolr' and
sure enough there was . real chins
doll on the little table that stood in the
corner of the room. This vas the first
doll Fanny had ever owned. Just like
Cousin Julia's too. only prettier."
The head and shoulders were china. but
the body was made of soft. white, glossy
kid, sewed with stitches so fine that little
Fan said she couldn't begin to count
them" Her hair was black and glossy
and hung in curls over her shoulders. Her
cheeks and lips were the color Of ripe
cherries. Her eyes were blue and her nose
vas Just such a. q doll ought to have, q
pug nose. FANS papa said Now. daugh-
ter, you must name her;" but what did she
care for name. She was just dollie and
that was all her own, and that wss enough
Blu. a name she must have" said the
papa eyeing the boys good naturedly, "for
this doll is not scare.crow, but one Of
the family" Fan applied ali the names
she could think of, or got the boys to name
over. but not one sounded just right
Finally her papa proposed the name of
Rose, for. said he. her cheeks and lips are
red as rose," and so the doll was called
Rose. Little Fan was very proud of her
doll. She made it a great many dresses,
and the boys made it little cart with
thread spools for wheels. They never
told her they would make scsre-crow OF
it. but seemed to think as much of as Fan
did.
But day came when Rose was put into
her very best dress, and wrapped in hei
little red flinnel cloak and laid on the tor
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