Every one who met
them saw simply a little girl and a beautiful gray cat. Finally they
stopped at a pretty little village. "Here," said the princess, "we will
rent a cottage."
They looked about until they found a charming cottage with a grape-vine
over the door, and roses and marigolds in the yard; then Dorothy, at the
princess's direction, went to the landlord and bargained for it.
Then they went to live in the cottage, and the princess taught Dorothy
how to make lovely tidies and cushions and aprons out of the beautiful
dresses in her trunk. She had a great store of them, but they were all
made in the Persian fashion and were of no use in this country.
When Dorothy had made the pretty articles out of the rich dresses, she
went out and sold them to wealthy ladies for high prices. She soon
earned quite a sum of money, which she placed at interest in the bank,
and she was then able to take her grandmother out of the almshouse. She
bought a beautiful chair with a canary-colored velvet cushion, and she
placed it at the window in the sun. She bought a bombazine dress and a
white cap with lilac ribbons, and she had the silk stocking with the
needles all ready.
But the day before the old grandmother came the princess bade Dorothy
good-bye. "I am going out again on my travels," said she; "I wish to see
more of the country, and I must continue my search for my brother, the
Maltese prince.
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