Callahan declared. "The Charity lady told me
just to ask for one--stingy old thing! I knowed my children's stomachs
and I got 'em filled up good. Run around the table again now, you John
Edward and Elmore, so's to jostle your victuals down and make room for
the cake and ice-cream."
Miss Drayton presently heard a great smacking of lips from the corner
where the twins sat. They had put their ice-cream together on one plate
and were feeding each other. Elmore put a generous spoonful in John
Edward's mouth.
"Smack your lips--loud--so I can taste it," he said. "Now it's your turn
to give me a spoonful."
"M-m-m! ain't it good?" exclaimed John Edward. "I smacked my lips
loudest--didn't I, Peggy?"
But Peggy, talking aside with Anne, did not heed him.
"It was very, very, very good of you all to send me the doll," said
Anne; "but truly, I'd rather you'd keep it for Susie and Lois. I'm
getting too big to play dolls, anyway."
Skipping homeward with her hands snuggled in her new muff, Anne confided
to Miss Drayton, "I don't hate it near so bad about Honey-Sweet now. I
love her just the same most dearly. And, just think! it was her being
lost that made you find me.
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