doll

"I should think you 'd be ashamed to play with dolls, Polly.

I 'll show you how." And forgetting her hate and contempt for dolls, down sat Fanny, soon getting as much absorbed as either of the others.

"Do you make all the paper dolls?" inquired Dorothy.

"But how do the paper dolls happen to be alive?" asked Aunt Em.

"The first dolls I made were not alive," said Miss Cuttenclip.

"Of course I was delighted with this present," continued Miss Cuttenclip, "and at once set to work and made several paper dolls, which, as soon as they were cut out, began to walk around and talk to me.

"Glinda keeps all the rain storms away; so I never worry about my dolls getting wet.

In one place a large group of especially nice paper dolls assembled to greet their Queen, whom it was easy to see they loved early.

The paper dolls were mowed down by dozens, and flew and fluttered in wild confusion in every direction, tumbling this way and that and getting more or less wrinkled and bent.

"And I had no idea it took so little to upset these paper dolls."

Miss Cuttenclip herself led them to the door in the wall, and as they passed along the street the paper dolls peeped at them half fearfully from the doors and windows.