Katy broke off her sentence to ask hastily, pointing across the street.
Two boys stood there chuckling, apparently staring straight at the little girls.
The three little girls stopped for an instant indignant.
“Oh, come on,” said Chicken Little, “it’s the Howard twins and they’re awful mean. Just pretend we don’t see them.”
But the boys had started toward them.
The little girls had half a mind to run when one of the boys called: “Where did you get your bodyguard?”
They looked hastily behind them—there was no one in sight.
Katy was provoked.
“You think you’re awful smart, don’t you?” she called back.
The boys were shaking with laughter and were now half-way across the street. The larger one began chanting: “Mary had a little lamb,” and the other added quickly: “His fleece was green as grass——”