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Updated: May 23, 2025
I gave Idelia a bag of buttons to play with, and because Ivanora hadn't eaten much breakfast I gave her a dish of molasses and some bread. I knew, of course, she'd mess herself, but I thought it would keep her contented. And it did!" she cried, going off into such a peal of laughter that the reporter had to join. "What'd she do, Molly?" asked Lionel.
"Why! you talk to him just as mother does to Ivanora or Idelia! Does he understand you? Can he tell?" "Yes. He understands. But there's something seriously wrong with him. He was never so bad as this. Ring for one of the girls, child. Ring at once." Molly knew nothing about bells.
She had come as soon as possible, which had not, however, been very promptly, because it was market morning for her mother, and a few of the to-be-expected accidents had befallen the twins. "You see, Miss Armacost," said Molly, in explanation, "I was just whisking down the kitchen to make all tidy for mother, and had put Ivanora on one side the table and Idelia on the other.
Their names had been selected "right out of a story book" that their mother had once read, and expressed about the only "foolishness" of which the busy woman had ever been guilty. "Ivanora! Idelia! Truck and dicker! Why, Mary wife, such names will handicap the babies from the start. Who can imagine an Ivanora making bread? or an Idelia scrubbing a floor?
"Why, I happened to set her alongside of father's chair. That has a feather cushion in it and I didn't know there was a hole in its cover. But there was, and Ivanora found it. I would have known she'd do that if I'd suspected the hole. When I turned around to see if all was right my sake! There was that precious child all stuck up with feathers till she looked like some big bird.
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