“How is that?” asked Agnes, expecting some illuminating information from the standpoint of a lower grade pupil.
“Why,” Sammy explained, “teacher asked Rob what was the plural of man. Rob told her ‘men.’ Then, of course, she had to keep right on at it. If you do answer her right she goes right at you again,” scoffed Sammy. “That’s why I don’t often answer her right if I can help it. It only makes you trouble.”
“Oh! Oh!” chuckled Neale. “A Daniel come to judgment.”
“Wait. Let’s hear the rest of Sam’s story,” begged Agnes. “What was Robbie Foote’s idea?”
“That’s what teacher said—he was full of ideas, only they were silly,” went on Sammy. “When he’d told her ‘men’ was the plural of ‘man,’ she said: ‘What is the plural of child?’ He told her ‘twins.’ What d’you know about that? She said his ideas were silly.”
“I’m not so sure he was silly,” laughed Neale.
“I wonder what has become of those Birdsall twins,” Agnes said thoughtfully. “Up here in this wild country—”
“Nonsense!” exclaimed Neale. “You don’t know anything of the kind. Those two girls that fisher-woman spoke about—”
“One of them was a boy.”
“Well, that doesn’t prove anything. We don’t even know that the two at the fisher-village were twins.”