Mary was bigger than Laura, and she had a rag doll named Nettie. Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll. It was named Susan. It wasn't Susan's fault that she was only a corncob. Sometimes Mary let Laura hold Nettie, but she only did it when Susan couldn't see. Laura Ingalls Wilder
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These two little girls were named Mary and Laura. They went to a birthday party where they met a girl named Susan. The girls traded three dolls. Mary got the corncob doll named Nettie, Laura got the rag doll named Susan, and Susan got the doll that looked like a baby, so she called it Baby Doll.

The next day at school, Laura asked Susan what her name was. She said, “My name is Susan,” so Laura told everybody that she had a new doll to play with. She made up a name for her doll: Baby Doll.

Nettie was very small so it didn't look like much of anything when you saw it, but Baby Doll looked just like Susan, but smaller. But Susan didn't look like anything because she didn't have any clothes on her. Mary said that they shouldn't let people know about what they had done because they might get in trouble.

Laura said “But I want to show everybody my new doll!” So she took Susan out in the yard and put her in the sandbox with some sand on top of her so that no one could see her. Then she ran back into the house and hid Baby Doll in her desk drawer. When they were all in their seats at school, Mary told Laura that Susan’s face was all scratched up because she had fallen down in the sandbox when she was playing with Baby Doll.

So Laura took Susan out in the yard again and covered her face with sand again so no one would see what had happened to her face in school that day. And Laura told everybody that her new doll’s face was all scratched up because she fell down in the sandbox when she was playing with Baby Doll."

Source: Little House In The Big Woods

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