Dotty Dimple at School

“O, dear, dear! Who set this basket down on my white apron? All wrinkled up! I can’t go to school! And me with a new book, bought day before yesterday!”

Things went on very much as usual with Miss Dimple. Lina did not quite forgive her for her unjust suspicions; still the two little girls chatted together, and seemed to be frien...

Mrs. Piper lived in a white cottage which nestled all summer under a woodbine; but there was no woodbine now, and the strips of red leather, which had held it up, were left stic...

“I think it would be better for you to go to Miss Parker yourself, and tell her you are sorry you have deceived her; still, if you are not brave enough to do it, and your sister...

All this while, Mr. Parlin, doing business in the city, and his wife, sewing by her cheerful fire, had neither of them felt any anxiety about their children. Why should they? Th...

“I wouldn’t tell Prudy how the girls laughed at me, and thought I was a _nidiot_. And the teacher too, I saw _her_ laughing, inside of her sleeves. Every time I think of it I wa...

Mr. Parlin found it very hard to push his way through the drifts, with the storm beating on all sides, and every snow-flake pricking like a needle. He thought of Ben Penny, and...

“Kiss me all you’re going to, Prudy,” said she, as she sat in her mother’s lap, with her sisters kneeling before her, “’cause, when you’ve kissed me enough, I want to put some _...

“Well, I’m going to tell you, anyway, it was so queer. The minister he prayed, and Dannie he stood up, and turned round, and looked at me. And what do you s’pose he put into his...

When Dotty reached home her eyes were blazing. A few tears would have quenched their fire, but she had not the “gift of tears.” She ran all over the house to find her mother, an...

Dotty did not go to school again until the next Monday. Miss Parker kissed her affectionately, and said, she should never forgive herself for her thoughtlessness; which was very...

Mrs. Parlin, as well as her husband, noticed Dotty’s sorrowful face; but she made no remark till she went up stairs to put the child to bed. Then she took her into her own chamb...