own face, that you didn't enlist?'"

"Well, I so felt!" Mom Potter defended herself. "Dear me, suz, if
you boys had to be drug--well, I dunno what I'd do!"

"Good for you, mom!" said Porky. "I knew you had the spunk. We
will be in it somehow ruther, if they don't stick us in school."

"How's that?" asked Mr. Potter.

The boys proceeded to explain. Mom and Pop, Potter looked slyly
at each other. "Education is a great thing," said Pop Potter,
filling his pipe. "I must say--"

"Why, dear me suz!" said mom flutteringly. "School and college!
Land sakes! You could both be ministers!"

"NO!" cried the twins, savagely attacking elderberry pie and the
cake. "Don't you think it!"

"It's real respectable," said Pop Potter, winking at the boys
when Mom Potter wasn't looking. "And think of all the church
suppers durin' the course of the year!"

"No Potter's ever been in the pulpit," said Mom dreamily.

"Yes, there was," corrected pop, "I was there myself oncet. I
grained it golden oak; and if I do say it, 'twas a neat job."

"My land, you know what I mean!" said mom, quite testily for her.