Page 51 - The Little sister of Wilifred

Fullerton's room, for, beside cordially
disliking that young gentleman himselft

he kept there two little dogs who, when

she opened the door, flew out and
snapped at her. if the dogs escaped

she was obliged to fetch them back, —-

Mrs. Bagley not allowing them in any
other part of the house, — and Peggy

was dreadfully afraid of dogs.
It was a very large house the child

often thought as she ran from one end

of it to the other, and there were many
rooms; but, oddly enough, there was no

room for Peggy herself, who therefore

slept in the attic in a sort of closet
lighted by a skylight.

When she lay on her bed she could
see through the skylight on some nights

a particularly bright star, which wTith a

little girl’s liking for ownership, she
called her star. She thought it must be