in the house for ten dollars--it's bad luck--yes, you laugh," she said
accusingly to Philip. "But you got lots to learn yet. My goodness, when
I think of all I learned since I was as old as you! Of all the new
things in the world! I guess till you're as old as I am there'll be
lots more."

"Sure Mike," said the boy, rather flippantly. "What's all new since you
was little?" he asked his aunt.

"Telephone, them talkin' machines, sewin' machines--anyhow, they were
mighty scarce then--trolleys----"

"Automobiles?"

"My goodness, yes! Them awful things! They scare the life out abody. I
don't go in none and I don't want no automobile hearse to haul me,
neither. I'd be afraid it'd run off."

"Great horn spoon, Aunt Rebecca, but that would be a gay ride," the boy
said, while Amanda giggled and Uncle Amos winked to Millie, who made a
hurried trip to the stove for coffee.

"Ach," came the aunt's rebuke. "You talk too much of that slang stuff.
I guess I'll take the next trolley home," she said, unconscious of the
merriment she had caused. "I'd like to help with the dishes, but I want
to get home before it gets so late for me. Anyhow, Amanda is big enough
to help. When I was big as her I cooked and baked and worked like a
woman. Why, when I was just a little thing, Mom'd tell me to go in the
front room and pick the snipples off the floor and I'd get down and do
it. Nobody does that now, neither. They run a sweeper over the carpets