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                         _DOTTY DIMPLE STORIES_

                          DOTTY DIMPLE AT PLAY

                             BY SOPHIE MAY

                   AUTHOR OF "LITTLE PRUDY STORIES"

                                 1868




_Illustrated_

TO THE _LITTLE "BLIND-EYED CHILDREN"_ IN THE ASYLUM FOR THE BLIND AT
INDIANAPOLIS.

[Illustration: DOTTY AND KATIE VISITING THE BLIND GIRLS.]




CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

   I. "THE BLIND-EYED CHILDREN"

  II. EMILY'S TRIALS

 III. PLAYING SHIP

  IV. A SPOILED DINNER

   V. PLAYING TRUANT

  VI. A STRANGE VISIT

 VII. PLAYING PRISONER

VIII. PLAYING THIEF

  IX. THANKSGIVING DAY

   X. GRANDMA'S OLD TIMES

  XI. THE CRYSTAL WEDDING




DOTTY DIMPLE AT PLAY.




CHAPTER I.

"THE BLIND-EYED CHILDREN."


"You is goin' off, Dotty Dimpwil."

"Yes, dear, and you must kiss me."

"No, not now; you isn't gone yet. You's goin' nex' day after this day."

Miss Dimple and Horace exchanged glances, for they had an important
secret between them.

"Dotty, does you want to hear me crow like Bantie? 'Cause," added Katie,
with a pitying glance at her cousin, "'cause you can't bear me bimeby,
when you didn't be to my house."

"That will do, you blessed little Topknot," cried Horace, as the shrill
