"Do you keep a turkey at your house?"
O, strange question!
"Does your papa keep sheep?" chimed in Lucy.
"We don't keep a thing!" replied Dovey, in great surprise at these remarkable speeches; "nor a dog either."
Then Flaxie Frizzle, growing bolder and bolder, came out brilliantly with this:—
"You got any trundlebeds to Boston?"
This was too much; the ice was beginning to crack.
"Why, Flaxie Frizzle!" said Lucy; and then she laughed.
"Look at that clock on the bracket! Why, what are you laughing at, girls?"