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good health are well bred. If you are no longer hungry we will call upon a
few of the most important citizens."
Toto and Billina followed behind them, behaving very well, and a little
way down the street they came to a handsome residence where Aunt
Sally Lunn lived. The old lady was glad to meet the little girl and gave
her a slice of white bread and butter which had been used as a door-mat.
It was almost fresh and tasted better than anything Dorothy had eaten in
the town.
"
Where do you get the butter?" she inquired.
"
We dig it out of the ground, which, as you may have observed, is all
flour and meal," replied Mr. Bunn. "There is a butter mine just at the
opposite side of the village. The trees which you see here are all
doughleanders and doughderas, and in the season we get quite a crop of
dough-nuts off them."
"
I should think the flour would blow around and get into your eyes," said
Dorothy.
"
No," said he; "we are bothered with cracker dust sometimes, but never
with flour."
Then he took her to see Johnny Cake, a cheerful old gentleman who lived
near by.
"
I suppose you've heard of me," said old Johnny, with an air of pride. "I'm
a great favorite all over the world."
"
"
Aren't you rather yellow?" asked Dorothy, looking at him critically.
Maybe, child. But don't think I'm bilious, for I was never in better
health in my life," replied the old gentleman. "If anything ailed me, I'd
willingly acknowledge the corn."
"
Johnny's a trifle stale," said Mr. Bunn, as they went away; "but he's a
good mixer and never gets cross-grained. I will now take you to call upon
some of my own relatives." They visited the Sugar Bunns, the Currant
Bunns and the Spanish Bunns, the latter having a decidedly foreign
appearance. Then they saw the French Rolls, who were very polite to
them, and made a brief call upon the Parker H. Rolls, who seemed a bit
proud and overbearing.
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