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A tiny nutshell of a pony-carriage full of babies comes trotting along, and its driver, poor Sheldon Williams, will make notes of the scene and put them into one of his clever hunting-pictures, little dreaming of the day when his early death will leave those babies penniless.
"Why, that IS curious!" she exclaimed. She jumped up. "Penrod!" But Penrod was no longer in the room. "What's the matter?" Mr. Schofield inquired. "Penrod!" said Mrs. Schofield breathlessly. "HE bought an old horn like one in old hunting-pictures yesterday! He bought it with some money Uncle Joe gave him! He bought it from Roddy Bitts!" "Where'd he go?" Together they rushed to the back porch.
And now that at last I was really in the hall, I should not have known it again. It was carpeted from end to end. Fragrant orange-trees stood in tubs, large hunting-pictures hung upon the walls, below which stood cases of stuffed birds, and over all presided a footman in livery, who himself looked like a stuffed specimen of the human race with unusually bright plumage.
"I love stuffed birds." The Duchess glanced at her uneasily. "What is she thinking about?" she wondered. But Julie roused herself. "Why, it looks as though everything here had gone to sleep for a hundred years," she said, gazing in astonishment at the little hall, with its old clock, its two or three stiff hunting-pictures, its drab-painted walls, its poker-work chest. And the drawing-room!
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