Vacation with the Tucker Twins

edee as he scraped the very last vestige of batter bread sticking to the sides of the pan. Annie Pore and

or coloured boys and girls. I had never seen her, but Mammy Susan had been rather impressed by what she ha

red Mammy, "but th' aint no tellin' what s

l, Blanche Johnson by name. I had written her telling her exactly what train to tak

besides getting most drowned," and Dum got up from the de

s Cox mu

ebedee. "Leave these stupid old

girls go on with your irresponsible parent and I will stay and do this little dab of dish washing. I don't want to go to Norfolk. In fact, I never do want to go to Norf

u to do so much, Jinn

done before the time is up," and I set the example by grabbing the batter bread pan from Zebedee, who wa

em into the hot, soapy water where Miss Cox officiated with a dish mop, and then into the rinse water. Dee was ready with a tea towel and Dum put them

m with the assistance of one learned gentleman and three charming young ladies, when two of th

ntleman had not made us walk around him so much," laughed Miss Cox. "Now off with yo

we got there. We could see dear old Mary Flannagan's red head as we put foot on the pier and as

on. Dum,-Virginia,-was artistic, sometimes a trifle moody, very impulsive and hot-tempered but withal the most generous and noble-minded person I knew, quite like her father in lots of ways. Dee,-Ca

first meeting that she seemed hardly the same person who had sat s

st beheld her and she had made good use of her time. I had a feeling the minute I saw her that perhaps she had come to some more sati

ry face than Mary's. Her blue eyes had a twinkle in them that was better than mere beauty and her frequent laughs disclosed a set

as determined as I had been on that morning in September when I started out from Bracken for boarding school

rls at once as he met them on the gangway. "I hope your father is well, Miss

smiling; "he enjoyed seeing you so much that I shall not be a

C?sar: "'Veni! Vidi! Vici!' Why, Page, the man is peculiar but he is more lonesome than anything else. All I did was to treat him like a human being and take for granted he would treat me the same way, and sure enough he did. And here is poor little A

is time Annie, having a neat, new little trunk which she called a "box," was not embarrassed by the bulging

doesn't come

batter bread, I shan't mind much," de

y, laden with boxes and baskets of lunch, all of them laughing and happy and any of them looking as though she might be a good cook, but not one of them was Blanche. Red there was in abundance but never in the form of a bow on the left shoulder. Red hats, red crav

he Page brand," murmured Zebedee. "I'm going to purch

icoat of royal purple. Her feet, substantial, to say the least, were encased in white canvas shoes with purple ties, and purple cotton stockings were stretched to their utmost over her piano legs (I mean the old square pianos), stretched so tight, in fact, that they took on the gloss of silk. A lavender crêpe de Ch

che Johnson?"

cing manner. "I am consigned to the kind ospices of Mr. Tucker and Miss Page Allison, a young lady who has b

cker's daughters, Miss Virginia and Miss Caroline. We came very near miss

ur first and most important relegations is that the mimbers must never do nothing nigrified. An' they have decided that the unduly bedizenment of yourself in red

oughby," and Zebedee, his face crimson from suppressed merriment, led th

bow, Miss Page, and that was that I am in kinder sicond

e! How old was the chil

the slight differentation in sex, I was so woeful I done forgot to arsk

, it must have been a relief for your

e to collect a little insuriance on his prodigy by bein' very promptitude in the compilation of the policies. Yes! Yes! Po' Jo! I felt that it was the least I could do to show respec' for

have to be to collec

try at a very tinder age and will pay at their disease if the

play?"

our club relegations is to use the word with the most syllabubs as we seem t

irls with the disgraceful Zebedee pretended to see something in a shoe