Donee

At last, one day Oostogah went down to the mill, and Donee plucked up her courage and followed him.

The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902

Donee went to the tree and looked down at the party she had made; at the little dishes with the rose on each.

The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902

"I'm going to do what I can for Donee," said the miller's wife.

The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902

The milk, of course, was put in the pot for coffee, and set on three dead leaves to boil; and Jenny allowed Donee to fill the jam dishes herself, with her own hands.

The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902

"Now, Donee," she said, "if you can make yourself a dress of this I will give you this box," and she opened a box, just like Jenny's.

The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902

When it was all over, the children's mother (Donee felt as if she was her mother too) called her in, and took out of that same cupboard a roll of the loveliest red calico.

The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902

Donee did not think it was like fairy-land or heaven, because she had never in her life heard of fairy-land or heaven.

The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902

Donee was very quiet, but it was to her as if the end of the world had come, all this was so happy and wonderful.

The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902

She laughed out loud with pleasure when she saw Donee.

The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902

But the miller's little Thad. and Jenny had found Donee behind the trough, and the three were making a nettle basket together, and were very well acquainted already.

The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902