I don't know whether to call it "Behind the Bars," or "Don't Feed the Animals."' "Then Lloyd said he shouldn't come in for making such a speech, and he sat down on the grass and began to sing in a ridiculous way, the old song that goes: "'Oh, angel, sweet angel, I pray thee Set the beautiful gates ajar.' "He was off the key, as he usually is when he sings without an accompaniment, and it was so funny, such a howl of a song, that we laughed till the tears came.

Then he said he'd name the picture 'At the Gate of Paradise,' and make a foot-note to the effect that she was a Peri, if she'd let him in.
"After awhile she said she'd let him in to Paradise if he could name one good deed he'd ever done that had benefited human kind.

He said certainly he could, and that he wouldn't have to dig it up from the dead past.

He could give it to her hot from the griddle, for only ten minutes before he had completed arrangements for the evening's entertainment of the bridal party.
"Lloyd opened the gate in a hurry then, and fairly begged him to come in, for we had been wild all week to know what godmother had decided upon.

She only laughed when we teased her to tell us, and said we'd see.
We were sure it would be something very elegant and formal.