"Isn't it funny ?" and she read a clever one that set them all to thinking.

There was much laughter when they finally had to give it up, and she told them the answer.
"Now listen to this," said Lloyd next, and then it was Joyce's turn, and the lunch was eaten in the midst of much laughing and many bright remarks that the salad called forth.
"You wouldn't think that having measles was so funny," said Betty, when the trays had been carried out, "if you had had it the way I did.

It was in the middle of harvest, so nobody had time to take care of me.

Cousin Hetty had so much to do that she couldn't come up-stairs many times a day to wait on me.

She'd just look in the door and ask if I wanted anything, and hurry away again.