"What makes her so cruel?" whispered Dotty.
"O, Grandma knows best," replied Prudy. "She never is cruel."
"What makes you put on so much butter?" said Jennie Vance; "I wouldn't give him a single thing but cold beans."
Dotty, whose Sunday school lesson was all the while ringing in her ears, looked at the judge's daughter severely.
"Would you pour cold beans into anybody's hands, Jennie Vance? Once my mamma gave some preserves to a beggar,—quince preserves,—she did."
"I'm going to give him some money," continued Dotty, defiantly; "just as cheerfully as ever I can."
"O, yes, because he called you the handsomest."
"No, Jennie Vance; because I am not stingy."
"Um isn't stinchy," echoed Katie.