DOLL'S CORRESPONDENCE.
DEAR JOSEY,--
I at last thought that I would write you. I hope you have not
quite forgotten your last mamma, for I have not forgotten you.
Your sister Ellen still continued the same bad girl, and so I sent
her to a ragman who gave me a shilling for her, though I guess he
will repent of his bargain before long, if she acts as naughty as
she has with me. I am very busy now. I help my mother in a great
many things, and am quite useful to her.
From EMILY ARTHURST.
I wrote back an answer which was this:--
Dear Mother Emily,--
Indeed I have not forgotten you, as you thought. Although I have
every thing I can wish for, jewelry, clothes, and food, yet I can
never forget the happy year I passed with you. I had hoped that my
sister Ellen would have reformed, but I am very sorry that she has
not. My present mamma is very kind to me; she has taken me to the
opera and to balls and parties.
From your affectionate daughter, that was,
JOSEPHINE ARNOLDSON.
About a week after I received another letter which read thus:--
My dear Daughter,--
I am very much pleased to hear that you still remember me as well
as I remember you, and that you hoped that Ellen would reform.
I hope you enjoy yourself where you are, and see as many nice
things as you can wish. Inclosed I send you a nice little pen for
you to write me letters with once a week, if your mamma will let
you.
From your late mother,
EMILY ARTHURST.
I answered it:--
Dear mother,--
I am very much pleased with my pen, and my present mother has
given me leave to write once a week.
JOSEPHINE ARNOLDSON.