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[Garnica Schuttler]

Know her!" cried Teddy. "She's my cousin. But why are you her dream?
You're not pretty." "I know I'm not pretty," answered the dream, "and
that's why I'm going to her. She was to have had such a pretty dream
to-night, but she ate a piece of plum-cake before she went to bed, so
now I'm going to her instead of the other one." "What was the other one
like?" asked Teddy. "There it is," said the dream, pointing toward the
boat. And now Teddy saw that another gray figure was in it. As he
looked, it slowly and sorrowfully stepped from the boat and came up the
beach toward them. It was very beautiful, and in its hand it carried a
great bunch of shining bubbles, fastened to a stick by parti-colored
ribbons, just as Teddy had seen Italians carrying balloons, only these
bubble-balloons were growing and shrinking and changing every moment,
just as though they were alive. As she came toward them the ugly dream
frowned and shook his hands at her. "Go away! Go away!" he cried.
"There's no use your following me around this way. You sha'n't be
dreamed to-night." "I think you might let me go into her dream with
you," said the pretty dream, sorrowfully. "She didn't know she oughtn't
to eat the plum-cake." "Well, you sha'n't," said the ugly dream. "She
ain't going to have any dream but me, and I'm going to look just as ugly
as I can. I'm going to do this way," and the naughty little dream put
his thumbs in the corners of his mouth, drawing it wide, and at the same
time drew down the outside corners of his eyes with his forefingers,
just as Teddy had seen the boys at school do sometimes. Then the dream
hopped up into the air and cut a caper. "Ho, ho!" he cried, "won't it be
fun? You can come along and see me frighten her, if you want to." This
last he said to Teddy. Teddy thought him a very naughty, ugly-tempered
little dream, but still he went with him, wondering all the time how he
could induce him to let the pretty dream go to Harriett, and as they wal
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