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Updated: June 1, 2025
At least, so their girl friends declared. Being Sunday, there was no general gathering of the Central High girls and boys, but Laura, naturally, saw her brother early. He was coming from his shower in bathrobe and slippers when Laura looked out of her own door. "What sort of fox-and-goose chase did Short and Long take you and Lance away on?" she demanded.
"Oh! don't you remember " and here followed a long account from No. 6 of how, about a week before, the little ones had gone somewhere to spend the day, and how it had turned out a very rainy day, so that they could not have games out of doors with their young friends, as had been expected, but were obliged to sit a great part of the time in the drawing-room, putting Chinese puzzles together into stupid patterns, and playing at fox-and-goose, while the ladies were talking "grown-up conversation," as No. 6 worded it, among themselves; and, of course, being on their own good behaviour, and very quiet, they could not help hearing what was said.
Bill and me, we ain't seen no one since Columbus crossed the Delaware in fourteen-ninety-two. Can't ye, now?" urged the tall man coaxingly. "We'll pitch horseshoes play cards if you want to; only Bill and me's pretty well burnt out at cards. Fox and geese too ever play fox and geese? We got a dandy fox-and-goose board but Bill, he natcherly can't play. He's from California, Bill is."
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