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ratified Charlie, humping in time with
bis fist on the table; Now Cannon's |
a common noun; third person.
"Oh let me! know " cried Liz,
running around from her side Of the
table, dish-towel in hand" third person,
singular number, neuter gender, nomin-
atiye case, t agree with"
eco ahead " jeered Charlie, you |
do know, with vengeance! Look here, |
Anna, she wants to know what cannon |
agrees with. 'Pon my work, if she isn't |
thestupidest!"
4 wish you'd be quiet" said Anna,
q. we actually can't hear ourselves speak
for your NOISE
olIavbe it agrees with girls, under,
stood" persisted Charlie :" the kind
that won't 20 up stairs after dark
Liz felt the scotf, and her brown
cheeks flushed but, not being very
ready with sharp answers, she merely
l2oEei her anger and went back to her
dishes. She was wiping the tea-taings
while Anna washed. Anna WAS their
cousjn. though not much of fayorite
with either of them; for Charlie com
nlajnod that she wouldn't help him with
his lessons, while Liz envied her because
she was grown up and saw company. 10
keen these elements in order was Aunt
Janet in her rocking chair on the other
side OF the room.
Aunt Janet and Anna talked, and Liz
wipod away in silence till there came an
other outburst from the young student
8" Look at this - he cried, his eyes flash
ing " lust see what she's done, will you,
With her smartness land he held up
| his Latin exercise and showed a row OF
/ bIisters where unhappy Liz had spat,
tered it with her dripping cups and
/ saucers.
"Take all your books on your own
side Of the table, said Aunt Janet, qui-
etly. You shouldn't leave them in the
way." Aunt Janet was chary of her
words, and had, besides, tone in giving
her orders which commanded attention.
So Charlie stopped his tauIt-hnding
though he hustled his goods about in
very sulky way.
Then came another interval Of peace
and conversation throye, and dish-wash'
ing and wiping were nearly at an end
when Charlie took his pen and began, IL
A large, round hand, to make his " Trans
position :" and then Liz, who by thai
time had about forgotten the snubbing hi
had given her as usual must interfere.
"That isn't the way make an f." sht
said; 81 don't curl it around like that
e Look herem and selling another pen, sh,
| dipp d it IN the ink and was about t,
, show what she could do, when dOwl
came great blot on the clean, whit
paper. Charlie sprang from his chair il
a rage.
81 wish you'd mind your own busi
. nessw he cried, "Just look at that
, now! What do you suppose l care HOY
? YOU write? | wish you'd mind you
dishes, and let me alone. You're tn
e most
: "Stop," said Aunt Janet. Get al
other sheet of paper. A blot isn't wort
e half that noise. And do you, elizabeth
i attend to your work"
8 Liz returned to her towel. She ha
{ been wiping glass saucer or preserve
e dish, and, in her haste to display her a,
70 ouirements. had left it wrapped in th
towel on the sideboard. She seized tn
k towel, but alas forgot the saucer, whicl
slipped from its hiding-place, fell with
crash to the floor. Liz shriebed, an
# then stopped for the pieces.
- Aunt Janet now approached the seen
" The shining bits were scattered over Il
,, ,, CARPET. "Don't take them in yol
~ ~ hands" she said "you will be cut, an
/, the splinters might get into your finger
y Get the dustpan and brush" Po,
, aunty bore the loss of her saucer vel
q patiently; such things were to be e
~ ~ pected whenever Liz undertook to
If useful
~ ~ The little girl, with many expression
20 "a of sorrow, swept up the glass and thre
it in the fire.
I "Now," said Aunt Janet, "give AM
h h the towel You have wiped enough (
- - this evening. Go to your lessons"
"a She brought her books and seated he
~ y, self as if to study, but the saucer was
- = her head, aud there was room for not
= ing else. And then Charlie would dru
10 "a and hum and rattle his papers, and stuC
20 40 out loud; and Anna kept talking, tai
T., ing. No wonder that little of poor Lii
y lessons touched her brain, aud that |,
,' " still lodged in it.
70, ''Do you know" she presently hea
~ I,t Anna say, "the Dyers have heard VIII
v Mr.. Mount said about them here I
other evening~