"
"Just right. Did your money hold out?"
"O I had three dollars and two shillings left, Dr. Sandford. Two
shillings and sixpence, I believe."
"You did well." The doctor was arranging something else in the
microscope. He had taken out the bit of liverwort.
"I had Juanita to help me," said Daisy.
"How do you suppose I am going to get all those things made up?" said
the doctor.
"Won't Mrs. Sandford attend to it?"
"Mrs. Sandford has her own contribution to attend to. I do not wish to
give her mine too."
"Cannot the children's mother make the things?"
The doctor's lip curled in funny fashion.
"They have no mother, I think. There is an old aunt, or grandmother, or
something, that does _not_ take care of the children. I shall not trust
the business certainly to her."
Daisy wondered a little that Mrs. Sandford, who was so good-natured,
could not do what was needful; but she said nothing.
"I think I shall turn over the whole thing in charge to you, Daisy?"
"But, Dr. Sandford, what can _I_ do?"
"Drive down with me to-morrow and see how big the children are, and then
have the things made."
"But I am afraid I do not know enough."
"I dare say you can find out. _I_ do not know enough--that is very
certain; and I have other things to attend to besides overseeing
mantua-makers."
"Our seamstress could do it,--if I could see her."
"Very well, then some other seamstress can. Now, Daisy--you may look at
this."
"What a beautiful thing! But what is it, Dr.
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