"If they are fragile, keep off."
"Just can't, mammy. Here we've had breakfast at half past six. Then we go head over heels into math. and heels over head into tan bark; and not another regulation mouthful to be had till one o'clock. Flesh and blood can't stand it, you know. We just have to have a barrel of apples handy, and a box of crackers; and any other trifles we can pick up."
"A barrel of apples!" said Rose. "And 'smuggled' in! Wherever in the world do you keep them?"
"You are going to be such a favourite with the Tacs next summer, I think I will not tell," said Magnus.
"Poor starved boy!" said Rose. "And he has been home two whole days, and not even half a dish of ice cream, yet."
"I have had all the ice I want, thank you," said Cadet Kindred, looking up at Cherry, who as I said, had been very silent while all these other girls filled the air. "Cream has been scarce. Perhaps if you two would stir up some sort of stuff to-morrow, Cherry would come down and freeze it."
"You shall freeze it yourself," said Violet.
"Agreed—with her to help me." And laughing up at her with mischievous eyes, Magnus finished his song:
"But never you trust the Summer Girl,—
Or you will find to your sorrow,
That just as she smiled on Tubs to-day,
She'll smile on Daddy to-morrow."