"You can get those for five cents in the other stores," whispered Nell.
"Better take it," said her brother. "Then I'll ask about the dishes."
"Yes, we'll take it," agreed Nan.
So Flossie was given her doll, and, even though it might have been only
five cents somewhere else, she liked it just as well.
"What else you wants to buy, childrens?" asked the old man. "I got lots
more things so cheap--oh, so very cheap!"
Billy and Bert strolled over to the window. They looked down in. Nan
crowded to their side. She felt sure, now, that the two pieces of china
were the very ones Miss Pompret wanted. If they could only get that
sugar bowl and pitcher!
"I wish you had a sailboat!" murmured Billy, as if that was all he cared
about. Then, turning to Nan he asked: "Would you like that sugar bowl
and pitcher?"
"Oh, yes, I think I would!" she exclaimed, trying not to make her voice
seem too eager.
"You might have a play party with them," Billy went on. If Miss Pompret
could have heard him then I feel sure she would have fainted, or had
what Dinah would call "a cat in a fit."
"You want those dishes?" asked the old man, as he reached over and
lifted the sugar bowl and pitcher from his window.
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