The Doll Story MEGAPACK ®: 25 Delightful Tales, Old and New by Frances Hodgson Burnett & L. Frank Baum

Author:Frances Hodgson Burnett & L. Frank Baum [Burnett, Frances Hodgson]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: fantasy, horror, science fiction, voodoo, poems, dolls
ISBN: 9781479401437
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2013-08-25T16:00:00+00:00

THE DOLL’S WEDDING, by Aunt Fanny

One day, Alice came home from school, and opening her drawer, to put away her things, she saw a letter lying on the very top of a pile of pantalets.

“Why, who can this be for?” said she, in a tone of delighted surprise. “Is it for me, mamma?”

“Yes,” said her mother, “and it is sealed up so tight, that I expect it is of the greatest importance; perhaps from the President of the United States, requesting you to come to Washington immediately, to dine with him.”

“Dear me, how delightful!” exclaimed Alice. “I like getting a letter, it’s so very oldy, you know—just like grown people; did you pay the postman?” and in her impatience and excitement, she tore the envelope all to pieces. “Now read it, mamma, please,” and then she began to jump up and down, and ended by turning a summerset on the bed.

Her mother laughed, and said: “If that is the way you are going to behave, when you go to see the President, I think he will be slightly astonished; but let us see, first, if he wrote it,” and she read thus:—

“DEAR ALICE—

My doll is to be married on next Friday, at two o’clock; and I should be very happy to see you, and as many dolls as you can bring.

Yours, truly,

LILY.

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 20th, 1858.”

“Isn’t it too nice!” cried Alice, with a joyful little scream. “A wedding!” and she bounced into a rocking-chair, and nearly tipped over backwards. “Dear me! What a leany-back chair! I very nearly upset. I’ll take Anna with me; but she must have a new dress immediately—and a hoop petticoat; and, oh, mamma! Her hands are all to pieces; the cotton is sticking out in every direction; can’t you buy her a new pair? These old brown ones will never do to go to a wedding. Oh, dear! I am so glad,” she continued, clapping her hands, “I won’t have any trouble with her hair, because it is made of china, and I need not put it up in curl-papers, as I did that poor old thing’s in the corner, staring at me so crossly, just because I cut her nose off: she can’t go to the wedding; she would frighten the bride into fits.”

And now Alice ran off, and coaxed her sister, who was the very best sister in the whole world, or anywhere else, to make Anna a dress, grand enough for the occasion; and, thereupon, commenced a great rummaging in the rag-bag, and among their mother’s stock of old ribbons; and in a short time Anna was made to look perfectly beautiful. The hoop petticoat gave her an appearance extremely like a balloon; and she had to sit down very carefully, to prevent it from going up in the air, and almost over her head.

When Friday came, it rained; and Alice’s sister very kindly went to see if the wedding would come off, rain or shine. She came back with the information, that

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