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UNCLE ALEC'S ROOM.
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the smile, for his dolly proved to be a pretty four-year-old little girl, who trotted in as fast as her fat legs would carry her, and, making straight for the shells, scrambled up an armful, saying, with a laugh that showed her little white teeth,—

"All for Dimmy and me, for Dimmy and me!"

JAMIE AND HIS DOLLY.
JAMIE AND HIS DOLLY.

JAMIE AND HIS DOLLY.

"That's my dolly; is n't she a nice one?" asked Jamie, proudly surveying his pet with his hands behind him and his short legs rather far apart,—a manly attitude copied from his brothers.

"She is a dear dolly. But why call her Pokey?" asked Rose, charmed with the new plaything.

"She is such an inquisitive little body she is always poking that mite of a nose into every thing; and as

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