_How Lola Wears her White Silk Dress at Last._
Lola has got her white silk dress that she did have so much wants
for, and it has a little ruffle around the neck and one around each
sleeve like she had wants for it to have. It is nice she is a great
lady now. She so did say at school she would be a great lady when
she did have her white silk dress on. And, too, at school she did
say the children would gather around her and sing, and they did. And
she did say at school, when the children would gather around her and
sing when she does have her white silk dress on--she did say then
she would stand up and stretch out her arms and bestow her blessing
on all of them like the deacon does to the people in the church in
the mill town--but she did n’t. She did n’t even raise up her hands.
She staid asleep in that long box the whole time the children was
marching around her and singing “Nearer My God to Thee,” and more
songs. She did just lay there in that long box with her white silk
dress on and her eyes shut and her hands folded and she was very
still all the time.
Her sister did cry. I did walk up to her and touch her hand where
she did sit in the rocking-chair. I did have asks if it was a white
silk dress she was having wants for, too. And she patted my hand
and I told her maybe she would get a white silk dress soon too, and
how nice it was Lola did have hers, what she had wants for--and the
ruffles in its neck and sleeves. And Lola’s sister did pat me on the
head and went out to her kitchen, and I did go out of doors again.
And there was Brave Horatius by the steps, and I saw a yellow
butterfly and a little way away there was a mud-puddle. By the
mud-puddle was a _guêpe_. She came. She went. Every time she did
come she did take a bit of mud. I did watch. When she was gone away,
a little hole was where she did take the mud. She did make comes
again. It was for mud she did come every time. Last time I did follow
after. It was a difficulty--the following after. She was so little a
person and the way she did go, it was a quick way. And I had seeing
she was making a cradle of mud for a baby guêpe to be.
Then I went a little way back. I saw a white butterfly. I have
wonders if Lola will wear her white silk dress to school when fall
time is come. I saw one more white butterfly. I looked more looks
about. Among the grasses on a little bush there was a katydid. And
its green was a pretty greenness. Its wings, they were folded close.
And it was washing its front feet. I have thinks katydids do keep
their feet most clean. They do wash them again and more times. I
so do like to keep watches of the way the katydid does clean its
face with its front foot. I have thinks to be a katydid would be
an interest life.
Brave Horatius and me looked looks away. We did see the little pond.
We went goes to it. Little white fleurs were along the way. I have
wonders if Lola will wear her white silk dress when at school they do
play London Bridge is falling down. When we was come to the little
pond I lay myself down close to its edge. I did look looks into the
pond. I saw things there. There were sky-clouds in the water. I saw
a crayfish come from under a rock. I saw minnows all about. First
they were still. Then they made moves about. I saw a little cradle
of tiny stones. It was about an inch long. While I did look looks
at it, it walked off. Then me and Brave Horatius did go on explores
to the near woods.