'Tis true
they lived 'way out in the country, and had no museums nor toy-shops
to visit, no fine parks to walk or ride in, nor did they have a very
great variety of toys. They had some dolls and books, and a baby-house
furnished with little beds and chairs and tables; and they had a big
Newfoundland dog, Old Bruno; and Dumps and Tot both had a little
kitten apiece; and there was "Old Billy," who once upon a time had
been a frisky little lamb, Diddie's special pet; but now he was a
vicious old sheep, who amused the children very much by running after
them whenever he could catch them out-of-doors. Sometimes, though, he
would butt them over and hurt them and Major Waldron had several times
had him turned into the pasture; but Diddie would always cry and beg
for him to be brought back and so Old Billy was nearly always in the
yard.
Then there was Corbin, the little white pony that belonged to all of
the children together, and was saddled and bridled every fair day, and
tied to the horse-rack, that the little girls might ride him whenever
they chose; and 'twas no unusual sight to see two of them on him at
once, cantering down the big road or through the grove.
And, besides all these amusements, Mammy or Aunt Milly or Aunt Edy, or
some of the negroes, would tell them tales; and once in a while they
would slip off and go to the quarters, to Aunt Nancy the tender's
cabin, and play with the little quarter children.
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