Vosh knew how to spell "traveller;" and the next word went across the house to be spelled as "porringer," when all the elder wanted was "porridge."
"Two left," said Mrs. Stebbins,—"that there dumpy gal and my Vosh."
"She's one of the smartest girls in all Cobbleville," said Corry.
"She ain't as smart as my Vosh."
Opinions might vary on a point like that; and every time the healthy-looking young lady whom Mrs. Stebbins so unkindly described as "dumpy" spelled a word correctly, her conduct was approved by Cobbleville in a rousing round of applause. All that Vosh's friends could do for him was as nothing to it, but he had his revenge. On the fourth word, after they were left alone, the applause began too soon.
The healthy young lady remembered too well the nature of Susie Hudson's blunder, and she rashly inserted an unnecessary "e" in "fusibility."
"Wrong. Down. Example?"
"Fusibility—example!"—a long, confused hesitation—"butter, sir."
And the hasty multitude of Cobbleville had been loudly cheering the unlucky "e" which the triumphant Vosh the next moment very carefully omitted.
Didn't Benton cheer then!