I don't suppose _she_ is to blame." "Why, mother--how can _I_ be to blame, for her not being willing to lend me her doll ?" "You _are_, I've no doubt," said her mother.

"Mary is a good-natured, accommodating girl,--always ready to do kindnesses, and if she has any unwillingness to lend any thing to you, it must be that you have created it yourself, by some misconduct.

So that it will prove, no doubt, that you are the one to be punished." Here Anne began to hang her head and look a little ashamed.

Her mother's supposition proved to be correct, for, on inquiring, it appeared that Mary had lent her doll to Anne a few days before, and that when she wanted it again, Anne was unwilling to give it to her, and when Mary insisted on her bringing it to her, she became angry and threw the doll out the window.
"I never heard that story before, cousin Forester," said Marco.

"And I did not know that you had stories in your pocket-book." Forester laughed and put up his pocket-book.
"I don't believe there is any story there," said Marco.