handsome Ed.

"How - "

"Naughty," simpered Cecilia. "Jack, how can you use slang in the
presence of ladies?" and she assumed the characteristic "tough"
walk, which had always been one of Clip's most laughable capers.

"Loidies!" echoed Jack, tilting his cap and striking an attitude
appropriate to that assumed by Cecilia. He slipped his arm within
hers, and the pair "strutted off," in the fashion identified with
the burlesque stage.

"Here! here!" called more than one young lady. "Come back here,
Clip! There are to be no boys!"

"This isn't a boy," called back Cecilia, keeping up the
performance. "He's only a - "

"Don't you dare!" threatened Jack.

The girls began to gather the things up from the grass.

"Now don't hurry," remarked Ed coolly. "The fact is, we are not
going your way."

"Don't want us!" almost gasped Ray.

"Shook!" groaned Bess.