The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-04-14

nurse, observing that they were
dressed as other children and that
Pollyooly spoke "prettily," and was in
clined to be naughty with her, assented
to the acquaintance. The little brown
eyed girls blue-eyed sister, Kathleen,
Joined them; and the four children
played happily together. While Polly
DOLLY mothered the Lump, Kathleen,
who was seven, mothered her little
sister, whose name was Mary. Also
now and again she mothered the
Lump; but Pollyooly was not jealous.
At first the Lump was somewhat
taken aback by this sudden acquisition
OF female friend; but his remark
able placidity stood him in good stead,
and he endured it with an even mind.
Presently indeed he seemed to be TAX
ing pleasure in it, for he began to
bully her in the manifest fashion.
Then the mother of the little girls
Joined them, and was at once charmed
by the Lump. Pollyooly found no need
to display the airs of a red Deeping,
with which she had been treating the
nurse, to her; and presently they were
chatting in the friendliest way. The
lady seemed as taken with PoIlyooly's
serious outlook on life as with the
charm of the Lump; and presently she
asked her If her mother would let
them come to tea with Kathleen and
Mary and to games on the sands after
it that afternoon. Pollyooly explained
that they were staying with their
cousin John. who had gone to golf at
milestone, and accepted the invita-
ton. The lady seemed surprised that
he should have left them to themselves
90 "a htrf pn1lxy0a1xy 4
that she was used to looking after the
Lump, and that 1t was quite safe.
They enjoyed the party exceedingly:
there were a dozen children, fellow
guests, and at tea the manners Of the
Lump, under Pollyooly's anxious eye,
were beyond reproach. Her hands in
deed troubled her q little; she kept
them out Of sight as much as she
could. After tea the younger children
played in the charge of nurses; the
elder children, to the extreme delight
of Pollyooly, who loved to run fleetly,
disported themselves in more swift
and violent games. She had much to
tell the Honorable John on his return
from milestone.
The next day she found herself well
launched in the society of the sands,
WIFI many pldyIudI6S, ana entered
upon the fullest and most delightful
life. But there is always a fly in the
finer ointments; and the Pyechurch fly
was Prince Adalbert of Lippe-Schweid-
nitz.
That morning Pollyooly had her first
sight OF him. She and the Lump
were playing with Kathleen and Mary,
when Kathleen cried in a tone of dis
may, Here's the Princei" picked I'D
Mary, and staggered of towards their
nurse with her.
Pouyooly picked up the Lump and
came with her, though she could see
no reason for Kathleen's dismay, for
the Prince was but fat little boy of
ten, small-eyed. thick-lipped, and snub-
nosed. His white sailor suit seemed
to give his ugliness it's full values.
Under the wing of their nurse Kath-
leen and Mary surveyed him with
alarmed eyes: and Kathleen told Polly
DOLLY of the dreadful things he had
done: how he had pushed little boy
over the edge of the sea wall, kicked
another. hit a little girl with a spade,
pulled the hair Of three others hard,
and how he always kicked over the
castles other children had built and
threw their spades and buckets into
the sea.
Even as she spoke he fell upon the