Ma poupée speaks English

Voici quelques très courtes histoires, sorties d'un petit livre chiné ce week-end, destiné aux lecteurs débutants de la fin du XIXe siècle.

En anglais, il contient plus d'une centaine d'historiettes, chacune illustrée en noir et blanc et très représentatives de la mode enfantine de l'époque; et où les poupées sont très présentes:

Child-Land: Pictures-pages for the Little Ones,
sans date (mais dédicace datée de 1875, d'un oncle à sa nièce),
ill. de Oscar Pletch, M. Richter, etc.
éd. S.W. Partridge & Co. (Londres),
192 pages + annexes.

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Dolly's party

This is Dolly's party. The two little girls have been invited to tea with her, and they have each brought their dolls with them. 

I hope it will be a pleasant party, though of course our two little friends must do all the talkings, as Miss Dolly, though she sits there in such state, cannot speak a single word.

But I dare say they can talk for her and themselves too.

Just the size

Our two little friends have been out to-day with their mama, to buy some stockings for their dolls. 

They have just returned, and are fitting them on, and find they are just the size. 

The youngest of the doll family is snug in her cradle; but the doll lying on her face on the drawers, must, I fear, be very uncomfortable. 

They will notice it presently, I dare say.