“I won’t,” cried Felix disgustedly. “I hate whiskers. Maybe I can’t help the grandfather part, but I CAN help having a beard.”
“You can’t. It’s written in the stars.”
“‘Tain’t. The stars can’t prevent me from shaving.”
“Won’t Grandpa Felix sound awful funny?” reflected Felicity.
“Peter will be a minister,” went on the Story Girl.
“Well, I might be something worse,” remarked Peter, in a not ungratified tone.
“Dan will be a farmer and will marry a girl whose name begins with K and he will have eleven children. And he’ll vote Grit.”
“I won’t,” cried scandalized Dan. “You don’t know a thing about it. Catch ME ever voting Grit! As for the rest of it—I don’t care. Farming’s well enough, though I’d rather be a sailor.”
“Don’t talk such nonsense,” protested Felicity sharply. “What on earth do you want to be a sailor for and be drowned?”
“All sailors aren’t drowned,” said Dan.