Why, I never heard the beat of it.

Now, there--there! you've said enough.

Not another word out of you--I won't have it!" "But, Aunt Patsy--" "Luigi! Didn't you hear what I told you ?" "But, Aunt Patsy, I--why, I'm not going to set my heart and lungs afloat in that pail of sewage which this criminal here has been prescri--" "Yes, you are, too.

You are going to be good, and do everything I tell you, like a dear," and she tapped his cheek affectionately with her finger.

"Rowena, take the prescription and go in the kitchen and hunt up the things and lay them out for me.