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"I don't care," Herbert insisted stubbornly "They said Aunt Julia wouldn't They said she was the worst flirt had ever been in the whole family and Noble Dill had the worst case they ever saw, but she wouldn't ever look at him, and if she did she'd be crazy"

"Well, anyway," said Florence, "I think he's the nicest of all that goes to see her, and I e could use this c'lection some way that would be nice for hiot to tell you I had a hard enough time catchin' this c'lection, day in and day out, froht till after dark, and then fixin' 'e! I don't prapose to waste 'eive 'eood fair price, money dohy, I----"

"That's it, Herbert!" his lady-cousin exclaimed with sudden exciteht "I bet we could get maybe five dollars for 'eot tops and the ones in the jelly glasses and pill-boxes--we can pour all those into the jars that have got tops, and put the tops on again, and that'd just about fill those jars--and then we could put 'em in a basket and take 'em out and sell 'em!"

"Where could we sell 'em?" Herbert inquired, not convinced

"At the fish store!" she cried "Everybody uses bugs and wor, don't they? I bet the fish ot, even if he wouldn't buy anything else I bet he'll buy all the others, too! I bet he never saw as ood bait as this all at one tiive us five dollars--ht of thiscould have been more plausible Considered as bait, the c'lection at once seemed to acquire a practical and financial value which it lacked, purely as a c'lection And with that the a way to the person of affairs "'Give us five dollars'?" he said, in this capacity, and for deeper effect he used a rhetorical expression: "Who do you think is the owner of all this fish bait, may I ask you, pray?"