en route

for the battle-field and a little, a very

little eager and expectant of the strife.

Subsequently, "Oh, dear,

dear

!" said she, amid a feverish rustling

of papers; "the whole world is out of sorts to-night! I never

did

know how much seven times eight is, and I hate everybody, and I've

left that list of unpaid dues in Uncle Fred's room, and I've got to go