The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-21
The Sandman Story
For Tonight
THE DOLliNGTON FAMILY
Part VI.

ment around and about the Dol
lington house.
A trunk was being packed with
Mr.. and Mrs. Dollington's clothes
and another trunk-shaped box was
being made ready for the clothes
of the children, when someone per-
suaded the little girl who lived in
the big house that very often the
father and mother when they had
more than one child left them with
the Aunt Dinah of the family, and
that If Mr.. and Mrs. Dollington
were very lonely, very lonely in
deed, the children could be sent
for.
So at the last minute Roy and
Marjory were left at home in
charge of Aunt Dinah, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Dollington went with the little
Girl and her mother and grand
mother to the mountains.
OH such nice long times as Roy
and Marjory and Aunt Dinah had
to talk. The big house was so
still and no one came to interrupt
them or stop them from living like
real people, and poor Peter said his
head was "just a-spliting with the
chatter and noise" they made.
These blessed chilluns air jes a
goin' t'have the time O. their young
lives. don't care what yo' all
say" said Aunt Dinah, IAN If yo'
all don't lax it, Peter, you 60 on
whar Misser and Miss Cora is"
Poor Peter didn't know where
they were, and he knew he would
fare pretty badly if he even went
outside the playroom, so there he
sat under tree all day, and night,
sometimes, and let the children car
ry on, as he called it,
But one day something happened
that made Peter a hero, and set
him up in Aunt Dinah's eyes and
esteem far higher than Peter ever
had expected to go.
1t happened in this way: Some
one had left the door open into the
hall, and in the hall was skylight,
and big storm of hailstones, came
and broke one of the small panes
of glass in the skylight window,
and to catch the rain someone had
put a tub under the skylight.
One day Roy and Marjory were
playing about and happened to
look out in the hall and saw the
tub: then they went to see what
was in it, and when they saw it
had some water in the bottom of
1t, Roy thought of bathing because
he had heard about it.
I'VE haven't any bathing suits"
said Marjory, who had been well
brought up and knew you could not
go in bathing without a bathing
suit.
I'VE can play our underclothes
are bathing SUITS" said Roy, and
off came their clothes just the way
real children do sometimes when
they find a brook in the country.
How will we get into the wa
ter? The tub is too high for us to
climb over" said Marjory.
''I'H show you," said Roy, and
away he ran to the corner of the
playroom, where there was a chair,
and dragged 1t beside the tub.
Roy and Marjory climbed up and
looked into the tub. 1T looks very
Deep" said Marjory.
"Oh! you are afraid because you
are a girl" said Roy. Watch me;
I'll jump in first
Splash" went Roy into the wa
ter, but it was too deep, and down
he went to the bottom and then up
he bobbed, and he could neither
swim nor walk. He just screamed:
''Hellop! hellop!"
Then Marjory called "Hellop!
hellop!" and Peter snoozing by the I
side Of the house jumped up. Roy |
will drown, Roy will drown" she
cried. ooh! Peter, what shall We
dO?"
Tell him to get in the boat"
said Peter, who knew that boats
were always on the water sailing
about in picture books.
But there isn't any boat here;
nothing but water" said Marjory.
Aunt Dinah, hearing the noise,
ran out Of the house. and when she
saw Marjory in the chair she climb.
ed up and looked in.
Aunt Dinah thought only of saw
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