Mary-Mary by Joan G. Robinson

Author:Joan G. Robinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781471402067
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Published: 2013-11-24T16:00:00+00:00

“I’m not,” said Mary-Mary. “I’m smiling at you.”

“Well, don’t,” said Miriam. “It looks awful.”

Mary-Mary made one of her interesting new faces instead, but Miriam pretended not to see.

A little later Mother said, “What’s the matter, Mary-Mary, dear? Have you got a tummy ache?”

“No,” said Mary-Mary. “I’m smiling at you.”

Mother looked surprised. Then she said, “That isn’t your ordinary smile, darling. What are you doing it for?”

“I’m practising for the photograph,” said Mary-Mary.

“There you are, you see!” said Miriam, Martyn, Mervyn, and Meg, all together. “What did we tell you?” “She is going to spoil it!” “She’s practising all these awful faces to make in front of the camera.”

Mary-Mary didn’t make the rest of her interesting new faces at them, because no one was looking at her. Instead she decided to save them for another time, and went away to find Moppet, her toy mouse.

Moppet was lying under the chest of drawers in the bedroom. Mary-Mary pulled him out, brushed the fluff off his fur, and stared closely into his tiny black eyes.

“Watch carefully, Moppet,” she said. Then she smiled at him.

“What did I look like?” asked Mary-Mary.

“Oh, you looked just like a toothpaste lady!” she said in Moppet’s voice.

“Good,” said Mary-Mary. “I hoped I did.”

She went back to the sitting-room, put her head round the door, and said, “Moppet says I smile just like a toothpaste lady.”

Then, before anyone could answer, she shut the door quickly and went away to play in the garden.

The very next day they all got ready to go to the photographer’s. They had their shoes polished, their nails scrubbed, and their hair brushed, and Mother said she had never seen them all looking so clean and neat and tidy all at the same time.

When they got to the photographer’s a lady with golden hair smiled at them a great deal, and showed them into a room behind the shop, where there was a thick carpet on the floor and a large camera standing in the corner.

Mary-Mary liked the colour of the lady’s hair very much, but she decided to save her smile for when the photograph was taken, in case she couldn’t do it twice.

The lady found a chair for Mother in a corner behind the camera; then she looked at all the children, still smiling, and said to Mother, “How would you like them taken—all together or one at a time?”

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