“What! Give them candy after they wouldn’t let us come to see them fly their planes? I should say not!”
“Oh, I don’t mean give them any candy,” explained Margie with a laugh. “But we’ll save some to eat in the meadow after we get there. And when the boys see us eating candy—”
“Oh, I see what you mean!” laughed Lucy. “Sure, we’ll do that. It will make them wish they’d invited us. What do you like best, jelly beans or gum drops?”
“I like both. But you get more jelly beans for a nickel than you do gum drops. Gum drops are expensive.”
“We’ll get some of each,” decided Lucy.
Now it wasn’t as easy to buy candy at the store of old Mrs. Traddle as it might seem. For one thing Mrs. Traddle was very deaf but she never would admit it. She thought her hearing was fine. So the boys and girls, after finding out that if they asked for chocolate drops often were handed lollypops, had gotten into the habit of pointing out in the show case what candy they wanted.
But this time Lucy, being in somewhat of a hurry, forgot, for the moment, that Mrs. Traddle was deaf. So, going into the store, Lucy said:
“I want five cents worth of jelly beans and gum drops, mixed, please.”
“Oh, yes, there is quite a breeze today,” said Mrs. Traddle, as she pulled her spectacles down off the top of her head to where they could sit on her nose and be in front of her eyes. “A very good breeze indeed. How many sticks did you say, my dear?”
“I didn’t say STICKS,” spoke Lucy. “I said I wanted my candy MIXED, Mrs. Traddle. Gum drops and jelly beans.”