"
"Aeroplane."
"You."
"How did you know that I was an aviator?"
"Never mind; go on with the game."
"All right. Beaux."
"Flattery."
"Chaperon."
"Hoodwink."
"Oh, you rascal! Mother."
"Father."
"Father."
"Money."
"Soft-boiled egg."
"Messy."
"American Beauties."
"Mr. Grant,--he often sends them to me."
"Music."
"Dancing."
"You pass. Now for to see if you're thoroughly grounded in the common
branches. Grammar, first. What's a noun, and give examples."
"A noun's a name. As, candy, heart, slipper."
"What's a compound noun?"
"Two names,--as chicken salad,--Philip Van Reypen,--moonlight."
"What's a mood?"
"Something you fall into,--as a ditch,--or love."
"What is an article?"
"A piece of fancy work for sale at a fair."
"What's a conjunction?"
"Anything that joins,--as the marriage ceremony, or hooks and eyes."
"Good. Now for arithmetic. If you are at home of an evening, and a chap
calls on you, and then I come to call, and take half your attention
from him, what is left?"
"The chap!"
"Right! Now, definitions. What do you mean by forever?"
"Until to-morrow!" returned Betty, laughing.
"Never?"
"Not until to-morrow!"
"How do you spell No?"
"Y-e-s."
"Oh, Betty," exclaimed Patty, laughing, "I didn't know you were so
witty!"
"Good gracious! don't call me _that!_ Here, stop this examination right
now! I _won't_ be called witty.
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