Dotty Dimple Out West

og church, which Mr. Parlin paused to admire. It was i

solemn in such a lonely place. There would be no sound outside; and as you looked throu

g holy," said Mrs. Clifford, "'the nun-lik

use! Little boy went in there, drank some of the old bear's podge, so sour he couldn't drink it." Here she looked disgusted

ople met to worship. Dotty had just been saying to herself, "How strange that God is in this mizzable

!" said she; "you

, I

l, w

tell '

that

hes. I'll tell you a 'tory," added she, balancing herself on a stump, an

Dotties and

all when I

o a threatening little fist, was shaken at Dotty, while the young o

" she said. "You are

t I have sumpin to stan' on!" sighed Miss Flyawa

ed Dotty; for, though Katie was s

n too," replied she, calml

you mean

did it; she's

state," said brother Horace, proudly. "You don't find s

ho never liked Horace's tone when he used th

ce, swinging his hat; "hurrah

d now? I don't want him to h

urned to h

to make her eyes flash; but we must

d speaking very respectfully, "if you are a true Republican,

'Publican to t

er uncertain, it being one of those little fi

eve in univers

nswered Dot

lack walnu

hesi

cans do, and m

ves in the black walnut

ould not be making sport of her. They were walking a little in advance of the others,

s a sort of ghost; but nobody but simpletons believe in such things," added

aid Dotty quietly; "I've got all over it. I

," said Horace, la

at's why my father brought me out West, because the doctor said it frightened me so.

won

tiful little tea-set, with golder rims than the one that

ea-set themse

fully; it's because, if they ever frighten me again, the Ma

. "I used to be full of mischief when I was small; but I never frightened a li

e years, liking him all the better for his chiva

aid she, as if the idea was quite new

some snake was gliding gracefully across her path. The lik

arting after it. Horace held her

"throw stones at it; ta

nnocent snake; he's more afra

wo times," exclaimed Katie, "

ering. "And I don't think now there's any difference in boy-cousins

as he could to get out of our sight;

lyaway, soothingly; "if I had a sid

under the same umbrella which had sheltered them years ago-a black one marked with white paint, "Sto

r," murmured Horac

for the pear, But give me t

y, and shook her bare head, which

air," said she,-"fire-r

o make you speak, G

ng lot, and his pecan trees had been fenced around to protect them from the

These shucks, if left till the coming of frost, would have opened of themselves, and scattered the nuts to the ground;

a right to do so. He had brought an axe in his carriage; and Mr. Parlin, whose good

most shucks. Dotty sat down on a log, half afraid there migh

TTING.-P

ly wish Prudy was here. Prudy would think I had a little temper at Horace just now; I wonder if he did.

look so dismal?" said Cassy, ta

ssy! When I think of that, I want to scream right out. Pru

will have to tell when you get hom

l events which had occurred since she parted from Prudy. The "far off" feeling left her as

arly wild with the new experience of eating in the woods, among the toads and squirrels, that she required constant watching to keep her within bounds. She wanted to run after all th