But, anyway, I'm hers! Oh, Patty, she's going to grow up a beauty! Did you ever see such eyes!" Patty laughed at Chick's enthusiasm, which was too patently genuine to be mere polite flattery, and entirely agreed in his opinion as to the good looks of the small Fleurette.
"What did you bring her ?" she asked, and Chick drew from his pocket a set of small gold pins.
"For her bibs and tuckers," he explained.

"At least that's what they told me at the shop.

I don't know much about such things." "They're just right," Patty said, "and they're her very first present,--outside the family.

Thank you a thousand times,--you're very thoughtful, Chick." "I hoped you'd like 'em," and the big, warm-hearted chap smiled with gratification.

"Dress her up in them to-morrow, will you ?" And Patty promised she would..