_First Girl._ My doll’s quilt is of chintz. What is this?
_Second Girl._ French Print.
_First Girl._ Let us take the doll up.
_Second Girl._ With all my heart.
_First Girl._ Where are her clothes?
_Second Girl._ Here they are; some in this trunk, and some hang in the
press.
_First Girl._ Bless me! what a nice press! I have a trunk at home, in
my doll’s house; but I have no press.
_Second Girl._ Here are her linen and coat; those shoes are her best,
do not put them on; take _these_.
_First Girl._ What gown does she put on?
_Second Girl._ Her white one. I will take it out, whilst you lace her
stays.
_First Girl._ What is her best cloak?
_Second Girl._ White; with a neat blond-lace round it.
_First Girl._ Mine has a muff; has your doll a muff?
_Second Girl._ No, she has not; my aunt says she will teach me to do
chain stitch; and then I am to work one.
_First Girl._ What is her best dress?
_Second Girl._ You shall see them all; there is the dress which I like
best.
_First Girl._ Why do you like it best?
_Second Girl._ It is my dear mother’s work; see how neat it is; and
there is a green silk.
_First Girl._ My doll’s best dress is brown with a stripe of blue; and
she has a white, wrought with a moss rose, a pink, and a large bunch
of leaves: _that_ was her best, but it is just worn out now; she must
leave it off soon.
_Second Girl._ Why does she wear it so long?
_First Girl._ I had a half-dollar to buy her a piece of silk; as I went
in the coach with my aunt to buy it, we met a poor child who had no
clothes, but the worst rags which you can think.
_Second Girl._ And you gave it to her. My doll should wear her old gown
for a long time, for the sake of such a use to put my half-dollar to.
_First Girl._ I had more joy in that, than I could have had in my
doll’s new dress. Dolls can not feel the want of clothes.
_Second Girl._ Now let us go down stairs.
[Illustration: Garden tools]