Tatiana as a baby, |
One day Princess Ella (her cousin) and Tatiana were wonderfully busy and mysterious, running in and out of the rooms, and exploding into laughter every now and then. In the evening after they were in bed Tatiana took from under her pillow a little box which dear cousin Ella had prepared for her. This contained some little colored stones which they had picked out of the gravel the day before, some bits of matches, luminous ends, or course, the sand-paper off a match box, and some tissue paper. This is a toy which they had prepared. After Tatiana was in bed, if she felt lonely she was to sit up in bed, light a match upon the sand paper, set fire to the tissue paper, and by its light to play with the stones. Well, of course, that could not be allowed, and the poor little Princess was overwhelmed when I explained to her that they might all have been burned in their beds. ~ M. Eager, imperial nurse
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