"A piece of fancy work for sale at a fair."

"What's a conjunction?"

"Anything that joins,--as the marriage ceremony, or hooks and eyes."

"Good. Now for arithmetic. If you are at home of an evening, and a chap
calls on you, and then I come to call, and take half your attention
from him, what is left?"

"The chap!"

"Right! Now, definitions. What do you mean by forever?"

"Until to-morrow!" returned Betty, laughing.

"Never?"

"Not until to-morrow!"

"How do you spell No?"

"Y-e-s."

"Oh, Betty," exclaimed Patty, laughing, "I didn't know you were so
witty!"

"Good gracious! don't call me _that!_ Here, stop this examination right
now! I _won't_ be called witty. Why, don't you know--