“‘Daddy, there’s altogether too much education in this house!’
“And I’m getting so saturated with Gee Gee’s English and Dimple’s Latin, and Miss Gould’s French, that positively I have to let off steam by using slang,” concluded Bobby.
“Just keep your slang for other places then, Bobby,” said Laura. “Mother is likely to overhear you——”
“And Laura’s pretty prim and particular herself,” laughed Dora Lockwood.
Jess began to giggle. “She’s getting literary, I understand,” she said. “So Mammy Jinny says. I heard her grumbling to herself only this morning when Jinny was ‘ridding up’ the living room here. She says:
“‘Dese yere literary folk is suah a trouble. Leabin’ books, an’ papers, an’ pen an’ ink eroun’ fo’ odder folks to pick up.’”
“‘Is Laura literary, Mammy?’ I asked her.
“‘Suah is,’ says Mammy Jinny. ‘Littahs t’ings all ober de house!’”
When the laugh against her had subsided, Laura said:
“But what good is it to boil, Bobby, if we can’t win games? To reach the top and win the trophy, we must win every game of the series from now on.”