"And now it's time for some poetry," said Diddie, and she wrote
"Poetry" at the top of the fifth page, and so on until she had divided
all of her book into places for stories and poetry. She had three
stories-- "Nettie Herbert," "The Bad Little Girl," and "Annie's Visit
to her Grandma." She had one place for poetry, and two places she had
marked "History;" for, as she told Dumps, she wasn't going to write
anything unless it was useful; she wasn't going to write just trash.
The titles being all decided upon, Dumps and Chris went back to their
dolls, and Diddie began to write her first story.
"NETTIE HERBERT."
"Nettie Herbert was a poor little girl;" and then she stopped and
asked,
"Dumps, would you have Nettie Herbert a po' little girl?"
"No, I wouldn't have nobody er po' little girl," said Dumps,
conclusively, and Diddie drew a line through what she had written, and
began again.
"Nettie Herbert was a rich little girl, and she lived with her pa and
ma in a big house in Nu Orlins; and one time her father give her a
gold dollar, and she went down town, and bort a grate big wax doll
with open and shet eyes, and a little cooking stove with pots and
kittles, and a wuck box, and lots uv peices uv clorf to make doll
cloes, and a bu-te-ful gold ring, and a lockit with her pas hare in
it, and a big box full uv all kinds uv candy and nuts and razens and
ornges and things, and a little git-ar to play chunes on, and two
little tubs and some little iuns to wash her doll cloes with; then she
bort a little wheelbarrer, and put all the things in it, and started
fur home.
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