The recipient of funds or other benefits.
1They promise each donor a receipt signed by the donee within 120 days or their money back.
2That gift is highly prized which the donor makes after seeking out the donee and honouring him properly.
3But the donee hurried away, saying:
4The second is the ingratitude of the donee-andthe Abbe Gabriel may be certain of our deep and lasting gratitude.
5But out in an Indian village I found Donee sick and starving.
6But Donee could not eat the pie, her heart was so full.
7Donee stood around for a long time, afraid to say what she wanted.
8Donee came up then, and stood directly before him, looking up at him.
9She laughed out loud with pleasure when she saw Donee.
10She looked at Donee now and then, standing with her little hands clasped behind her back.
11Donee went back to the hut, trotting along beside Oostogah, her roll of calico under her arm.
12So Donee staid all the afternoon.
13At last, one day Oostogah went down to the mill, and Donee plucked up her courage and followed him.
14Donee was a king's daughter.
15"I'm going to do what I can for Donee," said the miller's wife.
16Donee managed to whisper, if she were to have a party the next day, could the children come to it?