"Mostly for Laddie, just the same. You can't fool me, missy. I won't tell you one word."
"You needn't!" I answered, "I don't care!"
"Yes you do," he said. "You'd give anything to find out what I know, and then run to Laddie with it, but you can't fool me. I'm too smart for you."
"All right," I said. "You go and tell anything on Laddie, and I'll watch you, and first trick I catch you at, I'll do some telling myself, Smarty."
"That's a game more than one can play at," said Leon. "Go ahead!"
CHAPTER V
The First Day of School
"Birds in their little nests agree.
And why can't we?"
"B-i-r-d-s, birds, i-n, in, t-h-e-i-r, their, l-i-t-t-l-e, little, n-e-s-t-s, nests, a-g-r-e-e, agree."