"I have been visiting Mr. John's cuffs and collars in the
bureau-drawer. I want my girls' clothes on to-morrow. I claim it as my
right. We all have our rights. Put me in dresses and take me home to
the play-room. You have your rights too, and I wouldn't let any one
tell me that I hadn't a right to be a girl. It is my opinion that
if you had been meant for a boy you would have been made one. Come,
mother, cuddle me up, and let's go to sleep and have sweet dreams, and
a blithe waking to girlhood in the morning, when we will make up with
Mr. John; for he sends these chocolate-creams to let you know that he
is sorry."
"So we will, dear," said Mollie, tucking Helena's head under her chin.
"You were always wiser than your mother, child."
THE LARGEST VOLCANO IN THE WORLD
BY SARAH COAN.
[Illustration: THE LAKE OF FIRE.]
"Why, it isn't on the top of a mountain at all! What a humbug my
geography must have been!"
So wrote a little fellow to a young friend in America.
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