4/13 Now don't you know? "She must have had a bee in her bonnet with all these rollicking children round her." "No'm, she never; but I had the nosy-bleed on the _pew-quishon_ awful. Didn't eat no supper." "You don't tell me there was a scene in church," cried Aunt Madge, looking at Uncle Augustus, who rubbed his hands again, and laughed heartily. "How happened you to go, Horace ?" "It wasn't my doings, auntie. Topknot had been lying in a steam all night, and I told Mrs.Fixfax she wasn't fit to go out of the house; but no attention was paid to what _I_ said. |