When Sube appeared at Sunday School the following day he was nursing a bad cold.
"Did you catch an'thing 'sides a cold?" asked Gizzard under his breath.
"Not buch I didn't!" returned Sube. "Bud we godt a bystery over to our house."
"A mystery? What is it?"
"By bother found the Baptis' bidister's overcoat hangin' in our frondt hall last dight, and dobody in the house could tell her how it godt there!" Sube punched the grinning Gizzard jovially in the stomach as he continued, "She hadt me take it to him, but he didn't know how it godt there either!"
"We got a mystery over to my house, too!" howled Gizzard. "My mother's been tryin' to figger out how I could lose off my undershirt and one stockin' without knowin' it!"
When they had sufficiently calmed down the boys passed into Sunday School, winking knowingly whenever their eyes chanced to meet.