Poor Lady Magnifico! Little tingles of shame ran down her fingers as soon as she had spoken, for she saw, by the glances between her landlady and the doctor, that she had made another mistake.
"O, I like to keep house," cried Fly, holding up her trailing robes, and dancing over a carpet seam.

"What's this goldy thing ?" "Bellows, Toddlekins, to blow up the fire.

See me fill out their leather cheeks." "What pretty little _blozers_! Let me blow 'em!" There was a second dash upon the stove, and another scorch in the slip.
"There ought to be a fence built round that stove," said the anxious father.
"Come, Mother Hubbard, have you seen all there is in the cupboard?
Can't you give this poor old dog a bone ?" "Well, here I am with the care of the family on my shoulders," thought Mother Hubbard, winking fast behind the green spectacles, and recalling uneasily the couplet her father often repeated:-- "Think well before you pursue it; But when you begin, go through it." "Now what'll we have for dinner ?" Lady Magnifico was walking languidly about, admiring herself in the mirror, Dr.Moonshine rummaging an old closet, and Baby pulling out the bureau drawers.
"They have the easy part.

But never mind; I'll show them what I can do.
Mother says I have a great deal more taste for cooking than Susy has.
Didn't I make pickles all one vacation ?" Then Prudy sat down with the "Housekeeper's Friend," and began at the first page to read.

Half an hour passed, and no signs of her moving.
"I'm hunger-y," whispered Baby, taking a sugar-coated pill out of a box, and touching it with her tongue.