“The what!” said Miss Anne.
“No, the big things,—the big things,” said Lucy.
“The bulky things,” said Miss Anne, “not the sulky things!”
“Well, it sounded like sulky,” said Lucy; “but I thought it was not exactly that.”
“No, not exactly,—but it was not a very great mistake. I said useless things, and bulky things, and you got the sounds confounded.”
“Con— what?” said Lucy.
“Confounded,—that is, mixed together. You got the s sound of useless, instead of the b sound of bulky; but bulky and sulky mean very different things.”
“What does sulky mean? I know that bulky means big.”
“Sulkiness is a kind of ill-humor.”
“What kind?”