"You should see the preparations she's made and the precautions she's taken.

Actually, when I saw those baby's socks in her lap, I didn't know but she was going to put rubber heels on them! They've built the new house with deadening felt in all the walls, and Marie's planned the nursery and Cyril's den at opposite ends of the house; and she says she shall keep the baby there _all_ the time--the nursery, I mean, not the den.

She says she's going to teach it to be a quiet baby and hate noise.

She says she thinks she can do it, too." "Humph!" sniffed Aunt Hannah, scornfully.
"You should have seen Marie's disgust the other day," went on Billy, a bit mischievously.

"Her Cousin Jane sent on a rattle she'd made herself, all soft worsted, with bells inside.