his way homeward at will with the beach-wagon. "Well,
he ain't a bad-looking fellow, and he's got a good,
fair and square, honest eye. But I don't see how a fellow
like that, that's had every advantage in this world,
can hang round home and let his father support him.
Seems to me, if I had his health and his education,
I should want to strike out and do something for myself."

The girls on the back seat had hold of each other's hands,
and they exchanged electrical pressures at the different
points their father made.

"I presume," said Mrs. Lapham, "that he was down in Texas
looking after something"

"He's come back without finding it, I guess."

"Well, if his father has the money to support him,
and don't complain of the burden, I don't see why WE should."

"Oh, I know it's none of my business, but I don't like
the principle. I like to see a man ACT like a man.
I don't like to see him taken care of like a young lady.
Now, I suppose that fellow belongs to two or three clubs,
and hangs around 'em all day, lookin' out the window,--I've
seen 'em,--instead of tryin' to hunt up something to do
for an honest livin'."

"If I was a young man," Penelope struck in, "I would belong
to twenty clubs, if I could find them and I would hang