“Oh yes, indeed.”
“Where is Terra del Fuego?”
“But cousin, I study geography only five days in the week; you can’t expect me to know where Terra del Fuego is on Saturday.”
“Really, I hadn’t thought of that.”
“And you’ll tell us a story?” said Leefee.
“One we haven’t heard before,” suggested Adale.
“My top’s broked,” said Bryant with much emphasis.
“Friends,” said cousin Joe, “the demand for new stories is in great excess of the supply. When I finished telling you my last story, Adale there remarked that she had read that story in Wide Awake. Now there’s a moral in that remark of Adale’s, for when my friends and fellow-citizens have grown old enough to read stories they are too old for me to tell them to.”
“Oh, cousin!”
“But, I’ll compromise with you; instead of a story I’ll give you a drawing-lesson.”