Carolyn Wells

Dick and Dolly Carolyn Wells

Dick and Dolly were twins and had been twins for nine years. Most of these years had been spent with Grandma Banks and Aunt Helen, for Dick andDolly were orphaned when they were tiny tots, and Aunt Helen Banks was their mother'ssister. Then, about two years ago, Grandma Banks had died, and now Aunt Helen was to bemarried and go far away across the sea to live. So their Chicago home was broken up, and the twins were sent to the old Danahomestead in Connecticut, to live with their father's people. This transfer of their dwelling-place didn't bother Dick and Dolly much, for they werephilosophical little people and took things just as they happened, and, moreover, they wereso fond of each other, that so long as they were together, it didn't matter to them wherethey were. But to the two people who lived in the old Dana place, and who were about to receivethe twin charges, it mattered a great deal. Miss Rachel and Miss Abbie Dana were maiden ladies of precise and methodical habits, and to have their quiet home invaded by two unknown children was, to say the least, disturbing. But then Dick and Dolly were the children of their own brother, and so, of course theywere welcome, still the aunts felt sure it would make a great difference in the household. And indeed it di