The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies

flow quite as placidly with Ruth away as when the elder sister was at home. I

een found by chance, Agnes made Neale run downtown again at once with it so

is errand, and on his way back there was a blowout. Of course if Ruth had been at home she could scarcely have averted t

o be done all over again. Linda cut her finger "to the bone," as she gloomily announced.

lks about," said the old darkey. "An' I never yet did see

ay. "A million hens, Unc'

dat ever was? Always a-questionin' an' a-questionin'. Yo' can't

o unchallenged with Dot on the scene-no, indeed

tly demanded. "Is-is 'sprodigious' a diction

ake up words just as good as any dictionary-man? If I knows

only wants us to use language that you find in books. So I gu

an. "Yo' little gals is gettin' too much l'arnin'-suah

ng along the hedgerow next to the Creamers' premises that the little girls got into their memorable argument with Mabe

rother, were playing in their yard. That is, Bubby was playing while

by. Your face gets all red like a lob

lobs'er," s

d like that," repeated his sis

a lobs'er!"

, Bubby," spoke up Tess from acro

that Tess Kenway's assurance was half a criticism.

!" gas

are a bad boy," declared Mabel, who was always

a thing or two about lobsters herself

ing to the lobster, not the boy. "My father brought home live lobster

d the interested D

d there were three little ones in the basket, and that old, big lobster tried t

know," br

them that he turned r

ten further to such a flight of fancy without registe

why it can't be so

when they are boiled. They are

ied Mabel. "These are my lobsters and I'll

ument. Besides, Mabel grabbed Bubby by the

a 'magination. And maybe that lobste

lly. "You know very well, Dot Kenway, that Mr. Creamer wouldn't bring home s

Dot. "A live lobster would be wor

s the street to learn if any news had been gained of their runaway playmate. Mrs. Pinkney was still despairing. She had imagined already

mmy has run away to sea to be a pirate, there won't b

Pinkney will manage to get into," moaned hi

r, "I'm glad there is only one boy in my family. My boy doll, Nosmo Kin

old her placidly. "If he is very bad

rnal instincts aroused at such a

lligan, whose mother lives in that little house on Willow Wythe

send Sammy the

rted Tess, "we know Sammy isn't really naughty. H

sed Ruth so much, her sisters invented divers occupations to fill the hours until bedti

ched Oakhurst), stating that she had been allowed to see her brother and that, althoug

p there to the mountains at all. And just see, Neale, how right that Gypsy girl was. There wa

to ridicule Agnes' budding belief in fortune telling.

don't think she has shown much sense about her brother's illness. Scar

he finds Luke is all right," said Tess hopefu

Luke are,"

boy chum having departed. "I don't see what

of the old Corner House as at night. But Neale rushed in early with the morning paper to show

regain it by proving property and paying for this a

decided Agnes admiringly. "

this is one thing Ruth is not bossing

nes, "I wonder what Mr. Howbr

't interfere with what I do. And I haven't any guardian, unle

cily, "I suppose you would run a

een up half the night, he tells me, telephoning and sending telegrams. He has about m

s eagerly. "Let us take Mrs. Pinkney in the a

whether it is day or night," chuckled Neale. "But Mr. Pinkney is going to get away from

r wo

sit down and wait for Sammy

rned up," giggled Agnes. "So

see that the car is all right. We should be able to go over a lot of these roads i