It was a source of great amusement to the older members of the family.
"It is a mystery to me," said Miss Allison, "how they manage to keep track of their property, and remember who is the owner.

I have known a doll or a dish to change hands half a dozen times in the course of a forenoon." Elise promptly offered the paper boy doll again, which was promptly accepted.

Allison had nothing to offer which Kitty considered equivalent to a seat in the cart, but by a roundabout transfer the trade was finally made.

Allison gave Elise the amount of purple and yellow paint she needed for the Princess Pansy's ball gown, in return for which Elise gave her a piece of spangled gauze which Kitty had long had an eye upon.

Allison in turn handed the gauze to Kitty for her right to a seat in the pony-cart, and the affair was thus happily settled to the satisfaction of all parties.
"It _isn't_ that we are selfish with each other," Allison had retorted, indignantly, one day when Corinne remarked that she didn't see how sisters who loved each other could be so particular about everything.