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Pansy dolls were made in several ways—and pansy verses with them. Of
these dolls the easiest to make were the paper ones, folded and cut as
all children cut rows of doll dresses. Then a small hole was cut in the
top of each dress, and the pansy stem put into it. Without further work
there stood a pansy lady with a paper body and blossom head.
Other pansy dolls were made by covering tiny pill bottles with grass
blades, or leaves, putting one end of each leaf in the bottle, turning
them all down, and tying them in place with a grass blade sash. When
the bottle was filled with water and a pansy put into it, the children
had a pansy lady who would live a day or two.
“Rich purple hued velvets the pansy maids wear,
While cunning caps rest on their long yellow hair,”
quoted Mamma when she was invited out to see a row of these visitors of
Lady Hollyhock’s.
[Illustration: PANSY LADIES]
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