A great grizzly bear hugging a young grizzly daughter.
"Who made that grizzle?" asked Fly, disgusted.
"God."
"Why did He? I wouldn't!—Miss Perdegoff, which does God love best, great ugly grizzles or hunkydory little parrots?"
"O, fie!" said Mrs. Pragoff, really shocked; "where did a well-bred child like you ever hear such a coarse word as that?"
"Hollis says hunkydory," replied Fly, with her finger in her mouth, while Horace pretended to be absorbed in a monkey.
Mrs. Pragoff turned the subject.
"Tell me, children, which do you consider the most wonderful animal you have ever seen?"
"The lion," replied Prudy.
"The whale," said Dotty. "Which do you, Mrs. Pragoff?"