l the games had been played, and the little people st

nge! will you

ve, Minnie? But, in the firs

day, when you let Susan bring 'Toinette to dancing-school, I told Mr. Papanti what a pretty little dancer she was; and he made her stand up, and she learned

ested Mrs. Leg

and she learned it beautifull

me Cherrytoe always, mamma?" asked 'Toinette, with such a complacent delight in her own accomplishments, that her mother's smile was sad as it

darling. She was a woman who danced better than I ho

e, followed by two or three more, begging her to play the cachuca, and see how nicely 'Toinette could dance it. Half unwillingly the mother complied, and found really astonished as she noticed the graceful evolutions and accur

e; but the mother, anxiously watching her darling's flushed face and

ruined by so much flattery and admiration

tching! How can we help admiri

se they are all admiring her! You must help me to check it, Tom. Come, you are so famous for stories, tell t

uggested Mr. Burroughs, and, as his cous

o will listen to the humble attemp

rls and boys; and with 'Toinette perched upon his knee, and the rest grou