"Yes."
"How did it happen?"
"Yesterday in changing seats, the teacher put us together according to the first letter in our last names. You know that I, comes next to J; but there wasn't a girl in the room whose name begins with I, and so as J comes next, she put Mary Joseph and myself together."
"Ireland and Africa, and they were not ready for annexation?"
"No, and never will be, I hope."
"Never is a long day, Annette, but go on with your story."
"Well, after the teacher put her in the seat next to me she began to wriggle and squirm and I asked her if anything was biting her, because if there was, I did not want it to get on me."
"Oh, Annette, what a girl you are; why did you notice her? What did she say?"
"She said if there was, it must have got there since the teacher put her on that seat, and it must have come from me."
"Well, Mary Joseph knows how to scratch as well as you do."