"But you scowled at her sharp enough to take head off."
"If I were you, Dot, I wouldn't be any more disagreeable than I was absolutely obliged to.—Now, auntie, how much does it cost to advertise?"
"A dollar or so I believe."
"Well, if you'll lend me the money, I want to do it."
"To be plain with you, Horace, I really do not think it will be of the slightest use in this case; but I will consent to it if it will be any relief to your mind. We shall be obliged to cross the ferry again, for the advertisement ought to go into a Brooklyn paper."
"We are tired enough to drop," said Dotty; "and all these stars and things, too!"
"Yes, we are all tired; but we will leave you little girls at the ferry-house on the other side."
"But, auntie," said Prudy, anxiously, "I shouldn't really dare have the care of Fly. You know just how it is."
"Yes, I do know just how it is. Fly must walk, with her tired little feet, to the Eagle office, with Horace and me; or else she must make a solemn promise not to go out of the ferry-house."
"But I don't want to make a solomon promise, auntie; I want to see the eagle."