"O, yes."
"Why, I don't; I just despise 'em."
"Well, I don't like 'em very well," said Fel; for after our long separation she could not bear to disagree with me in anything.
"Cousin Lydia," said I, very soon after Fel came, "may we tell scare stories after we go to bed? She wants us to."
Cousin Lydia did not know what I meant by "scare stories."
"It's all the awful things we can think of," said I, eagerly. "And we like to, for we want to see 'f our hair 'll stand out straight."
Cousin Lydia laughed, and said "children were perfect curiosities."
"It makes us shiver all over. It's splendid," said I.
"Well, you may try it this once," said cousin Lydia, "if you'll stop talking the moment I tap on the wall."
So, as soon as we got into bed we began. "You tell first," said Ruphelle; "you can tell the orfulest, and then I'll tell."