Mrs.Baer's system of management is n't like mine, and until I convince the children I mean what I say, they give me the benefit of the doubt.

The Baer place is so large that Mrs.Baer never knows where disobedience may occur, and that she may be prepared she keeps one of Mr.Baer's old slippers on the front porch, one in the carriage-house, one in the arbor, one in the nursery, and one under the rose hedge at the front gate.

She showed me all these haunts, and told me to make myself thoroughly at home.

I felt tempted to-day, but I resisted." "You are working too hard, Polly.

I propose we do something about Mrs.
Chadwick.