"Kerosene is good, but as we haven't any, it will help it just to keep the air away from it, till you go home." "Goodness!" exclaimed Midget.

"You talk like a doctor." "I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up," said Dick.
"He is," volunteered Harry; "he cured the cat's broken leg, and he mended a bird's wing once." "Yes, I did," admitted Dick, modestly blushing at his achievements.

"Are you going right home because of your finger ?" "No, indeed! We never stop for hurts and things, unless they're bad enough for us to go to bed.

Give me another potato, and you open it for me, won't you, Dick ?" "Yep," and Marjorie was immediately supplied with the best of the potatoes and apples, carefully prepared for her use.
"Aren't there any other girls in Seacote ?" she inquired.
"There's Hester Corey," answered Tom; "but we don't know her very well.
She isn't nice, like you are.

And I don't know of any others, though there may be some.