You can't know for certain.

Just as likely as not, now, our baskets are conductors; and then again perhaps they are _non_; and I don't know which is the worst.

If we were sure they were _either one_, we ought to throw 'em away! that's a fact!" "Yes, indeed!" cried Dotty, tossing hers behind her as if it had been a living scorpion.

"Do you s'pose _hats_ will conduct ?" "Nonsense! no.

I didn't say baskets would, did I ?" returned Jennie, who still held her own dangling from her arm.