"Same old story ?" "Yes," she replied, "same old story.

When I went to my breakfast I called at my sister's room and said, '"Come, boys and girls, come out to play, the sun doth shine as bright as day," and when I've had my breakfast I'm coming to lug you both on deck.

It's a perfectly glorious morning, and it will do you both no end of good after being shut up so long.' 'All right,' my sister answered, 'Julius has quite made up his mind to go up as soon as he is dressed.

You call for us in half an hour, and we will be ready.'" "And wouldn't he come ?" John asked; "and why not ?" "Oh," she exclaimed with a laugh and a shrug of her shoulders, "shoes." "Shoes!" said John.

"What do you mean ?" "Just what I say," was the rejoinder.