It might begin like this: "Oh, have you a family founder, On your ancestral tree, Who laid the corner-stone of Hope On the campus at Del-phee." "Better finish that up, and read it at the tea," advised Anne; "there's something so spirited about it.

Is Charity going to decorate the study for the festal occasion?
We ought to have something sort of different, don't you think so ?" "Pioneer relics would be the only thing, and I don't know where we'd scare those up." "There's a whole cabinet of them in the Dean's room at the Assembly Hall." The two girls looked at each other wisely.

The subject really needed no argument or discussion.

Kit said briefly: "I'll try.

I think I can get some of them anyway if I approach Uncle Cassius as a humble student seeking knowledge." All unprepared for the onslaught, the Dean sat enjoying his after dinner smoke that evening when Kit tapped at the door.
"Come in," he called, a little bit testily, looking over his eye-glasses at the intruder.