The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories Part 21

WHAT?

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I turned it over with a backst.i.tch on the selvage edge.

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Yes, I like that way, too; but I think it's better to baste it on with Valenciennes or bombazine, or something of that sort. It gives it such an air--and attracts so much noise.

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It's forty-ninth Deuteronomy, sixty-forth to ninety-seventh inclusive. I think we ought all to read it often.

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Perhaps so; I generally use a hair pin.

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What did you say? (ASIDE.) Children, do be quiet!

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OH! B FLAT! Dear me, I thought you said it was the cat!

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Since WHEN?

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Why, _I_ never heard of it.

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You astound me! It seems utterly impossible!

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WHO did?

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Good-ness gracious!

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Well, what IS this world coming to? Was it right in CHURCH?

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And was her MOTHER there?

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Why, Mrs. Bagley, I should have died of humiliation! What did they DO?

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I can't be perfectly sure, because I haven't the notes by me; but I think it goes something like this: te-rolly-loll-loll, loll lolly-loll-loll, O tolly-loll-loll-LEE-LY-LI-I-do! And then REPEAT, you know.

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Yes, I think it IS very sweet--and very solemn and impressive, if you get the andantino and the pianissimo right.

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Oh, gum-drops, gum-drops! But I never allow them to eat striped candy.

And of course they CAN'T, till they get their teeth, anyway.

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WHAT?

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Oh, not in the least--go right on. He's here writing--it doesn't bother HIM.

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Very well, I'll come if I can. (ASIDE.) Dear me, how it does tire a person's arm to hold this thing up so long! I wish she'd--

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Oh no, not at all; I LIKE to talk--but I'm afraid I'm keeping you from your affairs.

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Visitors?

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No, we never use b.u.t.ter on them.

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Yes, that is a very good way; but all the cook-books say they are very unhealthy when they are out of season. And HE doesn't like them, anyway--especially canned.

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