Letty and the Twins

ater, as he came up on the front veranda. He had driven into the village direct

bled up for mere cozy comfort, and they were neither of them talking-a fact sufficient in itself to make one suspect

s? Tell us!" cr

please," e

thought they

r grandmother

Hartwell-Jones. Mrs. Hartw

wo been doing, without an

ing,

ing w

ce. She swallowed hard an

s-where I play most every afternoon, grandfather. Juno b

the nearest chair and bent double wi

t them each in turn. "Oh, why didn't I have Perk stay in from the

ce from the depths of a big chair. "I lost co

than e

hair was not very near so that he almost dropped on t

very big," moa

he greener," replied

nsolingly. "I felt as if I'd had enough after

go in search of grandmother. She appeared in the doorway just

hildren, and she would like to see you u

e children?" she cried, loo

st count after the eighth. Is there a

ismayed, but faced t

nd if that doesn't castor oil will. Dr. Greene has been called to West

had hot milk toast for supper, sitting up in bed with their wrappers on t

s what it was!"

lated Jane in reply. "I've played in the orchard 'most ev

me! It was because you looked so q

. And I didn't double up and howl, s

a moment by this home-thrust.

And I think I know what the good news is. The circus is comin' day

ne! Wouldn't you

ather said we might w

is mind now and not let us go, to punish

d! He'll have t

y promise. He ju

ans the same.

what he will do

. Grandfathers are differe

aughty and deserv

to know, to be put to bed in broad daylight?

ood in the doorway between the children's rooms and shook

ted in you," s

h, don't rub it in,"

sorry as we can

grandfather was planning to have a picnic on circus day, an' I was makin' out to bake some apple pi

any as that!" cried Jane, her p

t 'most half a bu

a little later in the summer, when there's other

er head and went a

punishment of some kind. It was not natural. It had never happened in any of her story-books, nor had it occurred in her own small experience, notwithstanding Christopher's ideas about forgiving grandfathers. It stood to reason then that she and Christopher, having been naught

y they were, deprived themselves of something, grandfather wou

sitting up in bed

hat yo

Huldah said we ate 'most half a bushel

. It's rubbish about Huldah's having to save 'em. I know better 'n

nyhow, and I think we

How could we? Wh

uriosity roused and coming in, huddle

ogether 'd buy half a bushel of apples?" asked Jane

to buy lemonade and pean

e can't go t

. Grandfathe

we're sorry. If we buy half a bushel of apples and give 'em to him in place of all those we ate, why, don't you se

sed him I'd never eat any more green apples, and I won'

greedy, but I'd rather go to the circus with

ut do you honestly think gr

It would be only fair,

the morning," answered Christ

onscience only half clear. Because of course her fifteen cents would not do any good

once Jane was right and they would better buy the half bushel of apples to show their repentance. They longed to consult Mrs. Hartwell-Jones, but that would mean telling the whole s

Joshua himself was going, to have one of the horses shod. At first he refused to take the twins with him, saying that they were in disgrace and

en the decorated rail-fences most entertaining and lively. Joshua stopped in front of each pictorial long enough for the children to spell out the a

ve seen all them things-if you hadn't s

e. "See, Kit, in that picture over there there are S

onies in the world beside Punch and Judy, and we don't know if Letty is with the circus that have Punch

there for his return. Christopher was disappointed. He had hoped for the treat of watching the blacksmith at work. But Joshua had gi

know the twins. He did not think such small children

h are apples?" asked

rprised by such a practic

cents a

Christopher togethe

t price," said

oo much for us to pay,"

he man coolly and turned away

ntment at the failure of their plan. Even the thought that he would now have his money for peanuts at

egetables and meat, which they carried away in a basket; others bought small quantities, wrapped in paper bags. Pr

man meant one of those great big baskets.

shel is," replied Christopher,

any as one of those basketfuls, an

fed a lo

y number 'cause I just saw a woman get some in a paper bag. It'll show grandfather w

said Christopher ungallantly. "That man i

man again, who happened at t

apples will thirty cents bu

a bu

ed at each oth

ristopher drew the thirty cents-two ten and t

e they to reach Sunnycrest and complete their sacrifice, and they kept urging Joshua to drive faster. They

nce a day, by the aid of one of grandfather's canes. Jane and Christopher carried the basket between them, up to the top of the ste

as she could if we hadn't eaten them, and we thought we ought to be punished for taking the apples without leave, didn't we, Ki

h our 'lowances," added

in grandmother's eyes as she thanked the twins

Jane and Christopher into her own r

o have eaten the apples, both because it endangered your health to eat unripe fruit and because it is always a sin to take what does not belong to one wit