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Beside these she laid two fur-lined overcoats, and backed away in naïve admiration at her industry. "Wonderful, wonderful," he said. "We'll only require saucepans and boiler lids to look exactly like Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee arrayed for battle. I say, Geraldine, how am I going to flee up a tree with all that on and snow-shoes to boot-s," he added shamelessly, grinning over his degraded wit.
"Perhaps you are likewise ignorant of the identity of the two people who masqueraded as Tweedle-dee and Jack o' Lantern?" "They were my brother and his friend Archie," was the prompt reply. "Ah! Then you will admit something of this intrigue." "If it can be called by so portentious a name," answered Beverly smiling. That smile acted like a match to gunpowder.
A barn dance had just begun, when down through the gym pranced Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee, and so identical were the figures that no mortal being could have told one from the other had they chanced to become separated. But this they seemed to have no intention of doing.
Meeting Miss Stetson on the stairs she found in her a militant coadjutor, and wireless could not have flashed the orders more quickly. Servants went a-running until one might have suspected the presence of a criminal in Leslie Manor rather than a mere boy. Meanwhile, what of Jack o' Lantern and Tweedle-dee?
And all you meet, In house or street, At work or play, Sweethearts are they. So, little dear, Pray feel no fear; Go where you will; Eat, eat your fill. Here is a feast From west to east; And you can say, Ere you go away, 'At last I stand In dear Candy-land, And no more can stuff; For once I've enough. Sweet! Sweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweedle-dee! Tweedle-dee!"
After going through all the formality of red-tapeism, and being snubbed with tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee, I got my furlough. When it started out, it was on the cleanest piece of paper that could be found in Buck Lanier's sutler's store. After it came back, it was pretty well used up, and looked as if it had gone through a very dark place, and been beat with a soot-bag.
The strange thing was that, contrary to his usual shrewdness, it should have taken Flitter Bill so long to see that the difference between having his store robbed by the Kentucky jay-hawkers and looted by Captain Wells was the difference between tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee, but, when he did see, he forged a plan of relief at once.
Quicker than it would seem possible for a person of her proportions to move, Miss Woodhull entered the study, reached the electric switch and turned on the lights, calling at the same moment: "Who is in that room?" There was no reply, and the irate lady, speedily covering the distance between the electric switch and the bedroom door, turned on the light in that room also. There stood Tweedle-dee.
The question of calling a given group of lines "iambic" or "trochaic," for instance, can be made quite arbitrary, depending upon where you begin to count syllables. "Iambic" with initial truncation or "trochaic" with final truncation? Tweedle-dum or tweedle-dee? Do you count waves from crest to crest or from hollow to hollow?
Jack had made for the very door Tweedle-dum had advised Tweedle-dee to make for and darted through it muttering as he paused a second to listen: "Gee, I wish I wasn't so confoundedly long legged!"
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