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"Yes, you may, pray!" was his cousin's instant and supercilious retort "Pray where would you ever of got any five dollars from any fish man, if it hadn't been forsoives us five dollars for 'em won't we remember it all our lives, pray? And, pray, what part did you think up of all this, pray? Not one single thing, and if you don't divide even with me, I'll run ahead and tell the fish man the whole c'lection has been in bottles that had old medicine and poison in 'em--and then where'll _you_ be, pray?"
It is to be doubted that Florence possessed the cold-blooded capacities hich this impromptu in diploone so far But the words sufficed; and Herbert was so perfectly intimidated that he was even unresentful "Well, you can have your ole two dollars and a half, whether you got a right to it or not," he said "But you got to carry the basket"
"No," said Florence "This has got to be done right, Herbert We're partners now and everything's got to be divided just exackly even I'll carry the basket half the way and you carry it the other half"
"Well----" he gruht way," she said sunnily "You carry it till we get to the fish man's, and I'll carry it all the way back"
But even Herbert could perceive the inequality here "It'll be e," she returned firmly "I spoke first to carry it on the way hoets it!"
"Look here!"
"Herbert, we got to get all these bugs fixed up and ready," she urged "We don't want to waste the whole afternoon just talkin' about it, do we? Besides, Herbert, on the way home you'll have two dollars and a half in your pocket, or anyway as much as you have left, if you buy sos, and you'll feel so fine then you won'tthe basket or not"
The picture she now suggested to Herbert'sthe basket both to the fish man and from the fish man: and he found himself anxious to protest, yet helpless in a an "You said----"