speedily enough, for he had the pleasure of seeing a fish slip
wrigglingly off the hook.

"Biggest one to-day," he murmured as he adjusted some fresh bait.
"Now, as to the Robinson twins. The only fault I have to find with
them, from my limited acquaintance, is that they are not evenly
divided. Bess is--er--well, not to be too delicate about it--too
fat--"

"No, no, I beg of you!" exclaimed Jack. "Don't use that word. Say
too much adiposed."

"Sounds like indisposed," murmured Ed; "but let it go at that. Bess
is too much adiposed, and Belle--"

"Well?"

"She is too un-adiposed, if you like it better. Not to put to fine
a point upon it, as Mr. Snagsby used to say--she's too thin."

"Not faults in either of them beyond repair," commented Jack. "Cora
is very keen about them. Thinks they're the best ever. She is very
much interested in them."

"How about Jack?" teased Ed. "He might have a perfectly pardonable
interest in being Interested in the twins--solely on his sister's
account, however--solely an the part of his sister."

"Um!" murmured Jack. "That's neither here nor there. To carry it a
little further, and still discussing the twins, there is Ed Foster,