“WINNIE"
-Winnie sniffed hard to keep back her tears. Everything had gone wrong that morning. Nurse had made her cry, when she combed the tangles out of her hair. Then she had lost her lunch on the way to school, and when,she arrived at school the teacher was cross with her for spilling paint an over her new dress. “Never mind,” Winnie, had sqid, “I will play with my dollies all the afternoon.”
On .hjex way home she saw a little girl named Christine. She was carrying the loveliest dolly Winnie had ever seen. It had two sets of clothes, some for indoors and some for when she wont' “Oop—how lovely I” Winnie gasped, and when she was in the garden playing with her own doll, she could not help feeling how unlucky she was. Why couldn’t she have a nice new dolly like Christine? Her old Betty had only one frock, and there were no other clothes to put cm her.; Also her leg was rather wobbly, 'to that she could not sit up properly upon a chalrJ “Oh, I'm tired of Betty!” said Winnie, and she pushed her dolly so hard into her chair that the wobbly leg nearly came off. “Oh!” cried Winnie, “I didn’t mean to do that to you, darling.” She picked up her dolly and cuddled it “Chrisfine, can have her fine child. I love you best” said Winnie.
—By' Mavis Hausmann, Shannon (aged 12 years).
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 26
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