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"Lookin' through it the wrong way isn't goin' to help it any, I tell you!" he insisted "You're old enough to know that, and I'lass spoiled and all my insecks wasted just because of a mere whin of yours!"

"A what?"

"A mere whin, I said!"

"What's a whin?"

"Never you mind," said Herbert ominously "You'll proba'ly find out some day when you aren't expectin' to!"

Undeniably, Florence was solass upon the table and picked up the notebook

"You lay that down, too," said Herbert instantly

"Oh, maybe it's somep'n you're 'shamed to----"

"Go on and read it, then," he said, suddenly changing his mind, for he was confident that she would find ht cause her to appreciate at least a little of her own inferiority

"'Nots'," Florence began "'Nots'----"

"Notes!" he corrected her fiercely

"'Notes'," she read "'Notes on our inseck friends The spidder----'"

"Spider!"

"'The spider spends his tiilently spins between posts and catches flies to eat thes in pairs Spiders also spin their webs in corners or in weeds or on a fence and soet about quicker than catapillars or fishing wors, and birds because having no wings, nor jurass hoper----'"

"Grasshopper!" Herbert shouted

"I'm readin' it the way it's spelled," Florence explained "Anyway, it don't h of an author to be furious "Lay it down!" he said bitterly "And go on back home to your dolls"

"Dolls certainly would be cleaner than vile bugs," Florence retorted, tossing the book upon the table "But in regards to that, I haven't had any," she went on, airily--"not for years and years and years and----"

He interrupted her, his voice again plaintive "See here, Florence, how do you expect oin' on around here like this? Can't you see I've got sohtful "I never did see as ether this way," she said "What you goin' to do with 'em, Herbert?"