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goes always on. “I used to take her to hear 
the band, in the carriage, and she went every- 
where I did.” 
But the love of all dolls, as of other pets, 
must end with a tragedy, and here it comes. 
“The next place we went to was Lucerne. 
There was a lovely lake there, but I had a 
very sad time. One day I thought I’d take 
baby down to breakfast, and, as I was going 
upstairs, my foot slipped and baby broke her 
head. And oh, I felt so bad! and I cried out, 
and I ran upstairs to Annie, and mamma came, 
and oh, we were all so sorry! And mamma 
said she thought I could get another head, 
but I said, ‘It won’t be the same baby.’ And 
mamma said may be we could make it seem so.” 
At this crisis the elder brother and sister de- 
parted for Mount Righi ‘They were going 
to stay all night, and mamma and I stayed at 
home to take care of each other. I felt very 
bad about baby and about their going, too. 
After they went, mamma and I thought we 
would go to the little town and see what we 
could find.” After many difficulties, a waxen 
head was discovered. ‘ Mamma bought it, and 
we took it home and put it on baby; but I said 
it wasn’t like my real baby, only it was better 
than having no child at all!” 
This crushing bereavement, this reluctant 
