“Oh, oh!” Budge exclaimed. “Can common folks like us make candy?”
“But we are not common folks, Budge.”
“I think we are,” said the boy, “when I think what lovely people candy-makers must be.”
“How much will we make?” asked Toddie. “Two pennies’s worth?”
“Oh, yes. More than two little boys can eat in a day.”
“Gwacious Peter!” Toddie exclaimed, “dat would be more dan a whole candystore full! Come on! Don’t letsh eat any lunch at all, so’s to have our tummuks all empty for de candy.”
“I’ll bet I can walk faster than you can, Aunt Alice,” said Budge, tugging at his aunt with one hand and pushing her with the other.
“I can run faster dan bofe of you,” shouted Toddie. “Come on!”
Mrs. Burton declined both challenges, so the boys went rapidly over the course without her and ran frantically up and down the piazza until their aunt joined them.