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I. References for Study G.A. Coe, Education in Religion and Morals, pp. 142-50. Revell, $1.35. W.S. Athearn, The Church School, pp. 85-102. Pilgrim Press, $1.00. G. Johnson, Education by Plays and Games, Part I. Ginn & Co., $0.90. II. Further Reading E.D. Angell, Play. Little, Brown & Co., $1.50.
He stepped to the door of the dining room, opened it, and said quietly, "My dear, will you honor us with your presence?" There was a rustle of black silk and there came through the doorway the stately form of her who had been Mrs. Polena Ginn. "Gentlemen," said the Major, "permit me to present to you my wife, the new mistress of 'Silverleaf Hall."
"Let him be!" ordered the young lady, rushing to the rescue. "Don't! don't! Azuba, stop him!" "Labe! stop! stop!" pleaded the housekeeper. "You My soul! it's Mr. Hungerford." It was what there was left of Mr. Hungerford. Mr. Ginn extended the disheveled, whimpering remnant at arm's length and regarded it. "Humph!" he grunted. "You know him, do you?" "Know him! Of course I do. But but I must say "
Barzilla Wingate, he says the same about his crowd. He's comin' on the mornin' train from Wellmouth." "You don't tell me. I ain't seen Barzilla for a long spell. Where you stoppin'? Come up to the house, won't you?" "Can't. I'm goin' to put up over to Obed Gott's. His sister, Polena Ginn, is a relation of mine by marriage. So long! Obed's gone on ahead to tell Polena to put the kettle on.
He tossed the valise to the floor, grinned, and extended a hand. "Well, Cap'n Dan," he observed, "you look as natural as life. I must have changed, I cal'late. Don't you know me?" The captain's eyes were opening wider and wider. "Labe!" he exclaimed; "Laban Ginn! Where in the world did you come from?"
"Because the infidel dog," he cried loudly, "who has soiled it with his unclean touch, defies us mocks us! He has suffered the loss of the offending hand, but the evil ginn protect him; he is inspired by efreets! But God is great and Mohammed is His only Prophet! We shall triumph; but it is written, oh, daring infidel, that you again shall become the guardian of the slipper!"
Ginn, personally, would be glad of it, for it was "lonesomer than a meeting-house on a week day." "I spend the heft of my daytimes out in the Back yard," he wrote. "I've lokated a bordin house handy by, but the Grub thare is tuffer than the mug on a Whailer two year out. I don't offen meet anybody I know, but tother day I met barney Black. He asked about you and your fokes and I told him.
"If you have you can clear out and let me get to my dish-washin'." "I'm through. Oh, by the way, what did Labe say in your letter? I've told you what he wrote me, but I forgot that he wrote you, too." Mrs. Ginn looked troubled. "I don't know what to do with that man," she declared. "I expect any minute to get word that he's been put in the lock-up.
Ginns, when they appear, take the forms of men, goats, cats, dogs, almost any animal in fact, and also monsters. Whirlwinds, and shooting stars, and dear times, and famine, and epidemics, are all caused by ginns. It is the ginns who have eaten all the food in the city when prices are exorbitant. If a man falls down in the dark, it is a ginn: a sudden illness or an accident is the work of a ginn.
Gertrude looked at him and then at her mother. Her lips twitched. "I'll go, Daddy," she said meekly, and went. When Captain Dan descended to the lower floor he found Mr. Ginn in the library. "Hello!" hailed the latter, "you look kind of set-up and sassy, seems to me. YOU ain't had nothin' to drink, have you?" "Drink? What do you mean by that? Has anybody around here had anything to drink?"
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