"Is Mattie going?"
"Yes."
"Then I'll come."
She threw down the saucer she was washing, dried her hands in her apron, and stood ready to follow.
"No, no, Poppie; that won't do. You must finish washing up and drying your breakfast things. Then you must put on your cloak and hat, and make yourself look nice and tidy, before I can take you."
"If it's only the beasts, miss! They ain't very particular, I guess."
Was this the old word of Chaucer indigenous, or a slip from the American slip?
"It's not for the beasts, but because you ought always to be tidy. There will be people there, of course, and it's disrespectful to other people to be untidy."
"I didn't know, miss. Would they give I to the bears?"