My Own Dolly

What a horrible little girl!

She has five other dolls, and “I am very fond of them all; but they can't expect to be treated like Angelina Seraphine, any more than Mary and Nurse can be expected to be treated as mamma treats her own children”
They ARE her children. Before she got the French bebé, they were the only dolls she had. Why can't they expect to be treated as her children?

She pushes her china doll in the cage with the mocking bird. And considering that the author says the bird was scared, and then the bird plucked a lot of the dolls hair out, I think the author is describing something that actually happened... and I'm just thinking about the fact that bird cages were already too small as they were at that time, and having that huge beast in it with the bird, and bird poop and all that... why the heck would anyone do that? Couldn't they just have left the doll outside the cage if they wanted the bird to keep company to the doll?
She ties the doll on the back of the cat “to ride”.
And there's more stories of animal abuse of this kind.
And then on top of this there's a story of a “wicked” boy who took a bird's nest, and the MC was so angry with him.

There are things that make me roll my eyes, but there's also a lot of interesting things.

And then it ends. Just like that.