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Page 19
"I sawed um first! I sawed um first!" screamed little Flyaway, thrusting
the point of the umbrella between Dotty's feet, and throwing her over.
"Can I believe my eyes!" said Mrs. Clifford's voice from the head of the
stairs; and down she rushed, with open arms, to greet her guests.
Then there was so much kissing, and so much talking, that nobody exactly
knew what anybody else said; and Katie added to the confusion by
fluttering in and out, and every now and then breaking into a musical
laugh, which the mocking-bird, not to be outdone, caught up and echoed.
It was a merry, merry meeting.
"You dee papa bringed you--didn't him, Dotty?" said Katie, flying at her
cousin with the feather duster, as soon as Grace had taken away the
umbrella, and pointing her remarks with the end of the handle.
"You's Uncle Eddard's baby--that's what is it."
"O, you darling Flyaway!" said Dotty, "if you _wouldn't_ stick that
handle right _into_ my eyes!"
"I's going to give you sumpin!" returned Katie, putting her hand in her
pocket, and producing a very soft orange, which had been used for a
football. "It's a ollinge. _You_ can eat um, 'cause I gived um to you."
"Thank you, O, thank you. Flyaway: how glad I am to see you! You look
just the same, and no different."
"O, no, I'm is growin' homely," replied the baby, cheerfully, "velly
homely; Hollis said so."
By the time Dotty's crushed hat was off, and she had made herself ready
for tea, trying to hide three of the six grease-spots with her hands,
Horace appeared with a little birch switch across his shoulder, strung
with fish. The fish were few and small; but Horace was just as tired, he
said, as if he had caught a whale. He did not say he was glad to see his
young cousin; but joy shone all over his face.
"We'll have times--won't we, little Topknot?" said he, taking Katie up
between his fingers, as if she had been a pinch of snuff.
"Is you _found_ of ollinges, Dotty?" asked Flyaway, with an anxious
glance at the yellow fruit in Dotty's hand, still untasted.
After tea the orange lay on the lounge.
"I's goin' to give you a ollinge," said Katie, presenting it again, as
if it were a new one. But after she had given it away three times, she
thought her duty was done.
"If you please um," said she, coaxingly, "I dess _I'll_ eat a slice o'
that ollinge."
So she had the whole.
"Dotty, have you seen Phebe?" asked Horace.
"No; where does she live?"
"O, out in the kitchen. Prudy saw her when she was here, ever so long
ago. She hasn't faded any since."
"O, now I remember, she's a niggro, as black as a _sip_."
"Yes; come out and see her. She's famous for making candy. She learned
that of Barby."
"Who is Barby?"
"The Dutch girl we had before Katinka came."
Dotty went into the kitchen with Horace to watch the candy-making. This
was a favorite method with him of entertaining visitors.
[Illustration: MAKING MOLASSES CANDY.--Page 92.]
Phebe Dolan was a young colored girl, who had a very desirable home at
Mrs. Clifford's, but who always persisted in going about the house in a
dejected manner, as if some one had treated her unkindly. For all that,
she was very happy; and under her solemn face was a deal of quiet fun.
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