“Capital!” said Mr. Powers: “you’ve earned your dinner to-day, have you not?”
Whether the dinners were fairly earned or no, the exercise had given them all good appetites, and they were not sorry to go in and take their seats at the well-furnished table.
VI.
LETTERS.
Maggie had seized the opportunity when Bessie was not near, to ask Mr. Powers for the Spanish moss.
“Mr. Powers,” she said, “is not that moss private moss?”
“Private moss? How private, Maggie?” said the gentleman.