“Well suppose you children go and play in the other room while we have our coffee,” chirped Aunt Emily. “Yes, they ought to have gone long ago.”
“Can you play Five Hundred, Jimmy?” asked Maisie.
“No I cant.”
“What do you think of that James, he cant play jacks and he cant play Five Hundred.”
“Well they’re both girl’s games,” said James loftily. “I wouldn’t play em either xept on account of you.”
“Oh wouldn’t you, Mr. Smarty.”
“Let’s play animal grabs.”
“But there aren’t enough of us for that. It’s no fun without a crowd.”
“An last time you got the giggles so bad mother made us stop.”
“Mother made us stop because you kicked little Billy Schmutz in the funnybone an made him cry.”