"Don't tell stories, you little sinner. Where is nowhere?"
"Over to Doctor Spider's."
"Gipsy, my dear, why will you persist in calling Doctor Wiseman nicknames?" remonstrated Lizzie.
"Why, Aunt Liz, because he's just like a spider, for all the world—all legs," flippantly replied Gipsy.
"And what business had you there, monkey? Didn't I tell you not to go? I thought I told you never to go there!" said the squire, in rising wrath.
"Know it, Guardy, and that's just the reason I went."
"Because I forbade you, eh?"
"You—you—you disobedient little hussy, you! Aren't you ashamed of yourself?"
"Ashamed!—what of? I haven't got the gout in my leg."