You wait and shoot those questions at Bill, just like that, to-night." "Well, but why--" "No, you must not interrupt," insisted Uncle Andy.
"But you _asked_ me! I was just as quiet--" "I didn't know what I was doing!" said his uncle.

"And I can't possibly answer all those questions.

Why, I could never begin to remember half of them." "I can," interposed the Babe.
"Oh, you needn't mind," said Uncle Andy, hastily.

"But perhaps, if you listen with great care, you _may_ find answers to some of them in what I am going to tell you.

Of course, I don't promise, for I don't know what you asked me.