'Stead of going to Joe Harper's we'll climb right up the hill and stop at the Widow Douglas'.

She'll have ice-cream! She has it most every day--dead loads of it.

And she'll be awful glad to have us." "Oh, that will be fun!" Then Becky reflected a moment and said: "But what will mamma say ?" "How'll she ever know ?" The girl turned the idea over in her mind, and said reluctantly: "I reckon it's wrong--but--" "But shucks! Your mother won't know, and so what's the harm?
All she wants is that you'll be safe; and I bet you she'd 'a' said go there if she'd 'a' thought of it.

I know she would!" The Widow Douglas' splendid hospitality was a tempting bait.

It and Tom's persuasions presently carried the day.