"All right," returned Johnny; "only not sit down."
"Yes, let's do sit down," interposed Dotty, with a view to thwarting Johnny.
"Suppose we play Hindoo," suggested Prudy, "if we can get Susy and Flossy into it."
"Play what?"
"Why, play we are Hindoos, and live away off in the Indian Ocean."
"Fishes or sharks?" asked Johnny, growing interested.
"O, people; and they act so queer. Mother played it with us once, when Susy had the toothache."
The older girls were hard to be persuaded. They did not like to leave their shell-work; but they came at last.
"Johnny shall be Joggo," said Susy; "that's a boy's name; Prudy will be 'Drop of Honey,' and Flossy 'Young Beauty,' and Dotty 'Summer Moon,' and I 'Onno.'"
"'Young Beauty' 's the prettiest," said Dotty; "if I can't play that, I'd rather stay with my birdie, and not play."