“It’s the phonograph,” said Bertha. “Winthrop and I fixed up that quarrel record, just for fun; isn’t it a good one?”
Roger understood at once, and went off into peals of laughter, but Patty had to have it explained to her.
“You see,” said Winthrop, “we have a big phonograph, and we make records for it ourselves. Bertha and I fixed up that one just for fun, and Elise is in there now looking after it. Come on in, and see it.”
They all went into the music-room, and Winthrop entertained them by putting in various cylinders, which they had made themselves.
Almost as funny as the quarrel was Bertha’s account of the occasion when she fell into the creek, and many funny recitations by Mr. Warner also made amusing records.
Patty could hardly believe that she had not heard her friends’ voices really raised in anger, until Winthrop put the same record in and let her hear it again.
He also promised her that some day she should make a record for herself, and leave it at Pine Branches as a memento of her visit.