Dot was fat, resolute, hasty, and devotedly unselfish. When Sam scalped her new doll, and fastened the glossy black curls to a wigwam improvised with the curtains of the four-post bed in the best bedroom, Dot was sorely tried. As her eyes passed from the crown-less doll on the floor to the floss-silk ringlets hanging from the bed-furni-ture, her round rosy face grew rounder and rosier, and tears burst from her eyes. But in a moment moreshe clenched her little fists, forced back the tears, and gave vent to her favourite saying, “I don't care.”
Dot was fat, resolute, hasty, and devotedly unselfish. When Sam scalped her new doll, and fastened the glossy black curls to a wigwam improvised with the curtains of the four-post bed in the best bedroom, Dot was sorely tried. As her eyes passed from the crown-less doll on the floor to the floss-silk ringlets hanging from the bed-furni-ture, her round rosy face grew rounder and rosier, and tears burst from her eyes. But in a moment moreshe clenched her little fists, forced back the tears, and gave vent to her favourite saying, “I don't care.”