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In the next minute the two girls were in the great garret, kneeling in
front of a trunk, in which Miriam had found the silk robe, which now lay
tumbled up in a corner of a stall in the cow-stable. Article after
article of female attire was drawn out and tossed on the floor. Dora was
delighted; she was fond of old-fashioned things, and here were clothes of
various eras. Some colonial, perhaps, and none that had been worn since
these two girls had come into the world. There was a calico dress with
large pink figures in it which caught Dora's eye; she sprang to her feet,
shook it out, and held it up before her.
"This will do," she said. "The length is all right, and it does not
matter about the rest of the fit."
"Of course not," said Miriam; "and now let us go down. We need not wait
to put the rest of the things back."
As Dora was about to go, her eyes fell on an old-fashioned pink
sunbonnet.
"If you don't mind," she said, "I will take that, too. I shall be
awfully awkward, and I don't want to get cinders or flour in my hair.


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