Yas'm," and with a final chuckle of joy over his success the old man hobbled quickly away in the direction of the kitchen.
Mrs.Cary, still smiling, went back to play Mrs.Fatima to a dusky moss-covered Blue Beard.
"Oh goody, goody, here is Mrs.Fatima again!" and Virgie's dancing feet seemed hardly to touch the ground.

"We've just finished building the castle.

Look!" She pointed proudly to a square of twigs and leaves around the garden seat.

"Come on, Sally Ann.

We can play it now and use Mamma's keys." "Wait dar! Whar'd I put my s'wode ?" And Sally Ann snatched up her dangerous weapon and thrust it into a rope around her waist.