Can recite the whole of 'Snow Bound,' end to end, without skipping or looking at the book.

Maybe you don't believe that.

Mother, ain't I right--without skipping a line, hey ?" Mrs.Dyke nodded to say that it was so, but explained that Sidney was in Guadalajara.

In putting on her new slippers for the first time the morning before, she had found a dime in the toe of one of them and had had the whole house by the ears ever since till she could spend it.
"Was it for licorice to make her licorice water ?" inquired Dyke gravely.
"Yes," said Mrs.Dyke.

"I made her tell me what she was going to get before she went, and it was licorice." Dyke, though his mother protested that he was foolish and that Presley and Vanamee had no great interest in "young ones," insisted upon showing the visitors Sidney's copy-books.