And it was _his_ cousin who was acting like a wild Indian at their pretty home table! "Azalea," he said,--Norah had left the dining-room,--"who brought you up?
Your mother died some years ago.

With whom have you lived since ?" "Why,--oh,--only with Papa." "But Uncle Thorpe,--I remember him well,--was a simple soul, but he was a quiet, well-behaved man.

Why didn't he teach you to be more restrained in your ways,--especially at table ?" "Restrained?
Oh, you mean I eat too much! Well, I have got a big appetite, but to-night I guess I'm specially hungry.

Or else your eats are specially good! You don't mind how much I eat, do you, Cousin Patty ?" "Of course she doesn't," Farnsworth went on, trying to look severe but obliged to smile at Azalea's total unconsciousness of any wrong manners on her part.

"But she does care if you behave like a 'wild and woolly,' although she's too polite to say so!" "Wild and woolly nothing! I've been awful careful to crook out my finger,--and that's the very reason why I upset the tumbler!" "That's true," agreed Patty, "and so, Zaly, suppose you discontinue that habit.