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 little face, and the cloth mask was tied over the back of each head.

"Now, we are ready!" shouted the Doll Lady, looking very odd in her backwards costume. "Choose partners, bow, backwards, of course!" And away they went, zigzagging around the room, giggling so hard they could scarcely stand up.

Dinah convulsed them all by exclaiming: "My! for once I wish my foots was turned backwards like dey was when I first camed alive. Den I could play a joke on you-alls and walk better'n anybody. I'd draw a prize, sure!"

Great sport they had, marching and dancing till they were startled by the curfew bell, which, in all well-regulated villages, rings the bedtime hour for the children.