Bos'n ain't but half of sixteen." "Anyway," put in Asaph, "you need somethin' she could wear forenoons, if she wanted to.

What's this one?
She looks young enough." The "one" referred to turned out to be a "coat for child of four." It was therefore scornfully rejected.

One after another the different magazines were examined and the pictures discussed.

At length a "costume for miss of eight years" was pronounced to be pretty nearly the thing.
"Godfrey scissors!" exclaimed the admiring Mr.Tidditt.

"That's mighty swell, ain't it?
What's the stuff goes into that, Cy ?" "'Material, batiste, trimmed with embroidered batiste.' What in time is batiste ?" "I don't know.