"See! I found this mandolin in my chair when I went to the breakfast-table this morning, and this watch was under my napkin.
This tennis-racquet was on the piano when I came up-stairs, and I've been finding books and things all morning." She opened a great box of chocolate bonbons as she spoke, and filled both his hands.
[Illustration: Filled both his hands] He looked about him with round, astonished eyes, but never said a word in answer to the eager questions of the girls, beyond a bashful "yessa" or "no'm." The arrival of Raleigh Stanford and one of his friends, on their wheels, put an end to the girls' interest in John Jay.

He was dismissed with a message to Sheba that sent him flying home through the woods like an excited little whirlwind.

The lid of the basket flopped up and down, in time to the motion of his scampering feet.

At the foot of the hill he began calling "Mammy!" and kept it up until he reached the door.

By that time, he was so out of breath that he could only gasp his message.