Miss Armstrong looked doubtful.

"I--I don't know as I know what you mean," she said. "What did you
want me to do?"

"Why, consider the plan. You know what 'consider' means, don't
you?"

"I know a Mother Goose with it in. That one about the piper and
the cow:


'He took up his pipes and he played her a tune,
Consider, old cow, consider.'


But I don't know as I SURELY know what he wanted the cow to do?
Does 'consider' mean see if you like it?"

"That's the idea. Think it over and see if you'd like to go halves
with me givin' the fish to Cap'n Hedge."

The curls moved vigorously up and down.

"I think I should," she decided.

"Good! Now you wait and I'll do it up."

He wrapped the toy vane in a piece of paper and handed it to his