"And I was a princess," piped Phronsie, crowding up to hold fast to her mother"s gown. "I truly was, Mamsie. Polly said so."
"So you were," declared Mamsie, smiling happily on her whole brood; "but then, you mustn"t ever forget, children, that it"s well enough to be princes and princesses once in a while, but you"re my little brown house people every day."