"Yes, you're my big sister; you've been away this year or more in
service."
"And you, Maggie, do you remember me too?"
Maggie at first seemed doubtful, but after a moment's reflection she
nodded her head vigorously.
"Come, Esther, see how Julia is getting on," said Mrs. Saunders; "she
makes her dogs nearly as fast as Jenny. She is still a bit careless in
drawing the paper into the moulds. Well, just as I was speaking of it:
'ere's a dog with one shoulder just 'arf the size of the other."
"Oh, mother, I'm sure nobody'd never know the difference."
"Wouldn't know the difference! Just look at the hanimal! Is it natural?
Sich carelessness I never seed."
"Esther, just look at Julia's dog," cried Jenny, "'e 'asn't got no more
than 'arf a shoulder. It's lucky mother saw it, for if the manager'd seen
it he'd have found something wrong with I don't know 'ow many more, and
docked us maybe a shilling or more on the week's work."
Julia began to cry.
"Jenny is always down on me. She is jealous just because mother said I
worked as fast as she did. If her work was overhauled--"
"There are all my dogs there on the right-hand side of the dresser--I
always 'as the right for my dogs--and if you find one there with an uneven
shoulder I'll--"
"Jennie is so fat that she likes everything like 'erself; that's why she
stuffs so much paper into her dogs.
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