When Gay left the room Miss Linn said, meekly,—
"I really don't know where to begin with her!"
"She has one excellent trait, Beulah; she obeys without question or rebellion."
"I must think about it," said Miss Linn, referring, of course, to "making May over."
But the good lady did not have an opportunity to think about it then; a loud shriek ran through the house, and Margery ran into the room, crying,—
"She's cut off her foot! She's cut off her foot!"
The ladies followed Margery through the house into the back yard, where they saw Gay dancing wildly around on one foot, holding the other up with both hands.
"May, didn't you promise me not to saw wood?"
"I didn't saw it; I chopped it."
"There is no difference," said Miss Linn, meaning in the spirit of the offense.