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They were talking play too, of course, it was in the air this morning, and they welcomed Ted joyously and deferred to her opinion as that of an expert. "Who'll be Shylock, Teddie?" demanded Bob Parker. "That's the only thing I'm curious about." "Jean," returned Ted calmly, "or at least the committee think so. I can tell by the way Barbara looks at her." "Beastly shame," muttered Bob.
"I thought he wasn't coming until to-morrow," said Teddie Wilson, who followed every move of the play committee with mournful interest. "He wasn't," explained Barbara Gordon, "but he found he could get off better to-day. It's only for the Shylocks and Portias, you know. We can't do much until they're definitely decided, so we can tell who is left for the other parts."
They had come to spend Thanksgiving Day on the farm. There was John, who was named for grandfather and looked just like him, and the twins, Teddie and Pat, who looked like nobody but each other; their papa was grandfather's oldest son. Then there was Louisa, who had a baby sister at home, and then Mary Virginia Martin, who was her mamma's only child.
With his long, curling white hair and his ascetic face he made a fantastic figure in the native dress, but he bore himself without a trace of self-consciousness. "If you're ready we'll go right up," said Jackson. "I'll just put on my clothes," said Bateman. "Why, Teddie, didn't you bring a pareo for your friend?" "I guess he'd rather wear clothes," smiled Edward.
"I shan't dress to-night," he repeated. "But, father, we've got Lucile coming, and Henry Davenport, and Mrs. Teddie Walker." "It will look so very out of the picture." "Don't you feel well, dear?" "You needn't make any effort. What is Charles for?" "But if you're really not up to it," Charlotte wavered. "Very well! Very well!" Old Mr.
He looks savage enough to eat you up, and is really as tame as tame can be." "Hi, Teddie! she's got yuh throwed, tied, an' branded, all right!" shouted one of the other punchers. The girls on the fence welcomed each feat of horsemanship with great applause. Some of the ponies "acted up," as Tom Gallup called it, "to the queen's taste." "Whatever that may mean, Tom," Mrs. Edwards said, dryly.
He also told me the plans for our depôt journey on which we shall be starting in about ten days' time. He wants me to be a dog driver with himself, Meares, and Teddie Evans, and this is what I would have chosen had I had a free choice at all. The dogs run in two teams and each team wants two men.
"Teddie Wilson has advertised the rule about that far and wide, poor child." "And you don't think Jean could possibly not have heard of it?" Betty asked anxiously. "Why, I shouldn't think so, but you might ask her to make sure. She certainly acted very much as if we had caught her at something she was ashamed of. Would you mind coming just a little way down-town, Betty?
Preaching does not do any good, as I know to my sorrow, since I've had Teddie to manage. But there are many little ways in which I can influence him without a word, and I say we ought to do it to others if we can." "Teddy is a remarkable boy, and can't be taken as a sample of other boys," said Amy, in a tone of solemn conviction, which would have convulsed the 'remarkable boy' if he had heard it.
She certainly ought to know on general principles that conditions keep you out of everything nice from the freshman team on. A visit from Helen Adams that evening threw some new light on the matter. "Betty," Helen demanded, "isn't Teddie Wilson trying for a part in our play?" "Helen Chase Adams," returned Betty, severely, "is it possible you don't know that she got a condition and can't try?"
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