"I'll tell you what I'm going to do," said Dotty, resolutely; "I'm
going right off to pay that money to Prudy, and then I'll be in the
line of my duty."
CHAPTER XII.
FULL NIPPERKIN.
Prudy scorned to take the ten cents. "Did you think your 'middle-aged'
sister would do such a thing, when she has more money than you have,
Dotty Dimple? If you're only sorry, that's all I ask. I didn't like to
have you laugh, as if you didn't care."
"But, Prudy, I want to be honest."
"And so you have been, dear child," said grandma Parlin, with an
approving smile. "If Prudy chooses now to give you the money, receive
it as a present, and say, 'Thank you.'"
"O, thank you, Prudy Parlin, over and over, and up to the moon," cried
Dotty, throwing her arms around her kind sister's neck. "I'll never
lose anything of yours again; no, never, never!"
This lesson was laid away on a shelf in Dotty's memory. Close beside
it was another lesson, still more wholesome.
"Dotty Dimple isn't the best girl that ever lived. She had to be
talked to and talked to, before she was willing to do right.
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