"Through, through!" answered the convention in a body.
And Miss Appleby, amid the general din, remarked, "That's the way a pig would spell if it got the chance."
"Thru, clu, blu, nu, hu," wrote Totts.
"Hu? Hu?" repeated Willows, vacantly; "what's hu?"
"Hup, hup, hup," vainly continued Egghorn, waving his arms.
"Hu's who," explained Cottsill, loudly.
"Who, who!" explained the whole convention to Willows.
"Booh, pooh!" said Willows. And running to the blackboard he added:
"Bu, pu, and stu, also glu."