Minerva (lifting her on her knee)—Yes, dear, when you’re fast asleep in—
Bobby—But I did hear him, I heard the bells jingle in the roof.
Minerva—Perhaps he’s around seeing if you’re good children and don’t quarrel. You know he doesn’t give presents to bad children.
Betty—Uths hathn’t fighted for two days. Uths been awful good, hathn’t uth, Bobby?
Bobby—Yep, but if Christmas doesn’t hurry up and come I’ll bust, I know I will.
Enter Bill and Jennie
Bill—Sam, what do you know, Pa says we can’t get into town. How are we going to buy—
Sam (shakes hand in warning behind twin’s backs)—See here Bill, I—I—
Bill—Say, what’s the matter with you, Sam? Have you got the palsy?