"I really think you'd better, Aunt Cornelia.

Or both of us will have to put Lizzie to bed with a case of acute hysteria." "Well," said Miss Van Gorder, "perhaps you're right, dear." Her eyes gleamed.

"I should have liked to try it just once more though," she confided.

"I feel certain that I could hit that tree over there if my eye wouldn't wink so when the thing goes off." "Now, it's winking eyes," said Lizzie on a note of tragic chant, "but next time it'll be bleeding corpses and--" Dale added her own protestations to Lizzie's.

"Please, darling, if you really want to practice, Billy can fix up some sort of target range--but I don't want my favorite aunt assassinated by a ricocheted bullet before my eyes!" "Well, perhaps it would be best to try again another time," admitted Miss Van Gorder.