"The He-one had on a two-inch hat with a green
ribbon and wore a white bob-tail coat that 'bout
reached to the top o' his pants. Looks like he lived
on water-crackers and milk, his skin's that white.
The She-one had a set o' hoops on her big as a circus
tent. Much as I could do to git her in the 'bus
--as it was, she come in sideways. And her trunk!
Well, it oughter been on wheels--one o' them travellin'
houses. I thought one spell I'd take the old
plug out the shafts and hook on to it and git it up
that-a-way."

"Some of Lucy's chums, I guess," chuckled Uncle
Ephraim. "Miss Jane told me they were coming.
How long are they going to stay?"

"Dunno. Till they git fed up and fattened,
maybe. If they was mine I'd have killin' time
to-day."

Ann Gossaway and some of her cronies also gave
free rein to their tongues.

"Learned them tricks at a finishin' school, did
they?" broke out the dressmaker. (Lucy had been
the only young woman in Warehold who had ever
enjoyed that privilege.) "Wearin' each other's hats,
rollin' round in the sand, and hollerin' so you could
hear 'em clear to the lighthouse. If I had my way