Dotty Dimple Out West

up rejoicing. Dotty Dimple watched it from t

dges. Why not? Last week it was ever so dull; now it is bright. I shou

rb was composed of a very peculiar kind of gold, which could be rubbed as easily as Norah's tin

is was the day set for departure. "I am happy up to my throat:" so she said to Prudy. And now all this happiness was to be buttoned up in a cunning litt

I'd like to hear you bark in the cars; a

ands, with a napkin between, were two picture-books and a small spy-glass. There was a trunk with a sunshade in it, and some pretty dresses; among them the favorite white delaine, no longer stained with marmalade. There were presents in the trunk for Grace, Horace, and Katie, which were

ks. She did not need the journey for the sake of her health; her papa was to take her because he chose to give her the same pleasure he had once giv

ed that the promise had been made; but the young traveller would only be gone

ing between the parlor and the kitchen like a discontented little pe

y could in her excited condition, had kissed everybody good

ck climbed the bean-stalk. She flirted her clean dress against the wheel, but did not observe it. She was as happy as Jack when he reached the giant's house; happier too, for she had mounted to a castle in the air; and everybody knows a castle in

he hack; and he could not forbear kissing the li

," thought he, "to be able

door looked aft

n, waving her handkerchief, "and d

and six to Flyaway," cried Prudy; "a

hat, if they had been anything else

to a story-book; and Dotty did not think much about it af

m the depot. Dotty felt as if she had a pair of wings on her shoulders, or a pair of seven-league boots on her feet; at any rate, she was whirling through space without any will of her

It was a very small event just to take an afternoon's ride to Grandpa Parlin's; but when it came to whizzing out t

how to part my hair in the middle. Then my papa wouldn't

elligent enough to manage the trunks, and proceed in a straight line to Indiana, still he was incapable

at the toilet, Dotty came to the conclusion that she was not, strict

any people there are in this ca

d looked around. The faces

reckles all over her face! Perhaps her mother wishes she was as whi

d, and had accidentally caught a

look!" smiling and noddi

y, and you'll look very p

rrectly. I am sorry to say there was a deal of foolish vanity in the child's heart. Thoughtless people had so often spoke

not half so pretty. I don't believe but somebody's been sitting down on his hat. What has he got in his lap? Is it a kitten? White a

at

. See his ears shake! He's pu

hose

looked acro

m. Presently the captain and his son Adolphus changed places with the woman and the freckled girl, and made themselv

oft and sparkling as his liquid Indian-red eyes, with the sunshine quivering in them as in dewdrops, then I should like to see that gem, and have it set in the finest gold, and send it to the most beaut

ll in her arms. Adolphus allowed her to do so. He was very kind to answer all her questions, and always in the most sensible manner. If

e one-sided, he wore no gloves, and, on the whole, was not dressed as well as Dotty, who had started from home that very morning, clean and fresh. He was every day as old as Susy; but Miss Dim