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"Now, boys, remember, if you laugh the least bit, I'll stop. And, oh, auntie, I forgot to say that the boys wrote some of the atoms." "Atoms?" repeated Auntie Jean, puzzled. "Atoms! Miss Scricket, oh, ho!" called Archie; then, recollecting himself just in time, he clapped his hands over his mouth. "That's what you said they were, I thought," said Cricket, anxiously.
"Cricket, if you weren't a girl, what would you rather be?" "I know a boy," said Archie, quickly. "Wouldn't you, Miss Scricket?" "No, I wouldn't, Mr. Archie. I would rather be a pig than a boy. A nice fat pig, and then nobody would laugh at my 'knitting-needles. That's what papa calls my legs, always, auntie, you know, because they're not fat, I know.
"I don't care whether you call it square or round," answered Cricket, briefly, snipping Zaidee's fingers, which were creeping too near the peppermints. "Zaidee, keep your hands away. You've broken a whole piece out of that." "How could she break a whole piece?" teased Archie. "If it's a piece, 't isn't whole, Miss Scricket."
"By jove!" ejaculated Archie, still on his back, too much surprised to get up. "Well done, Miss Scricket!" applauded Will. "Bet you can't do it again." "Come over here, and I'll try you," offered Cricket, and Will, laughingly, put his arm around her waist. But his superior size and strength soon told, and Cricket found herself down on her back.
"Won't the boys give you a blessing, Miss Scricket!" "A blessing is a good thing to have," answered Cricket, quite undisturbed, as she yielded the oars to Eunice, and sat in the stern with Edna. "It seems to me, my dear," said grandma, standing on the piazza, and drawing on her gloves, "that it is a very great risk to run to go and leave those children to themselves for six whole hours.
Hilda goes to-day, the boys leave on Monday for their camp, and Edna goes on Tuesday to her grandmother's. Cricket and I will be left all forlorn." "Yes," added Cricket, pulling a long face, "and on Tuesday morning Eunice and I will be wearing the garbage of woe." "Whatever you rig yourself up in, Miss Scricket," said Archie, amid the general laughter, "don't deck yourself out in garbage.
"Don't confess it right out loud, Miss Scricket, if you did get away with that number. I'm not astonished, but I'm overcome." "Dear me," answered Cricket, tossing her curls, "you think you're abdominally smart, I know, but " A howl of laughter stopped her, and Cricket looked dismayed. They always made so much fun of her when she made one of her constant mistakes in the use of words.
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