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chairs to watch the cook making cake and 
pastry. Daisy was “ such a good girl,” as 
every one in the house said. She was never 
in the way. So she passed her morning 
very pleasantly,—iirst in learning very ex¬ 
actly the arithmetic and geography lessons 
(very little lessons, to-be-sure, they were) 
which she recited to Aunt Louisa every 
day, and then in washing out her doll’s 
clothes in a nice little tub which the cook 
used to lend her for the purpose. In the 
course of her laundry-work, Daisy gained 
quite a victory over herself; for, chancing 
to want one of Miss Dolly’s frocks which 
she had left up-stairs in the nursery-closet, 
she actually went up alone and got it, 
though the upper hall was quite dark and 
there was nobody in that part of the house. 
But, though she felt pleased with herself, 
she told nobody; for she was very much 
ashamed of her fears, and did not like to 
have any one know that she was afraid. 
So, on the whole, she enjoyed her solitary 
morning very much. 
Bichard and Sidney had been up betimes, 
and had learned their holiday-lessons before 
breakfast; and as soon as that meal was 
