"
"What are you boys going to do this afternoon? Don't you want to play
something?" asked Bess.
"No, thanks, we have something else on hand," was the unsatisfactory
reply.
"What?" said Louise.
"Never mind; little girls mustn't ask questions," responded Carl
paternally, as he and Ikey left the room. A moment later he returned
to call through the half-opened door, "I know something I'm not going
to tell."
"Never mind, I can get it out of Ikey," responded Louise.
"Unfortunately he doesn't know it," came from the third-story stairs.
"Perhaps Mandy will let us make some candy; let's ask her, and not
tell the boys," Louise suggested.
So while Joanna carried Carie off for a walk the others went down to
the kitchen.
It was a large, bright room, and it was Mandy's pride to keep it
shining. Aunt Sukey sat by one of the windows with the mending basket
beside her, and the presiding genius stood at the spotless table
rolling out croquettes.
"Mandy, we are so lonely without Auntie! mayn't we make some candy to
amuse us?" Louise put on her most coaxing expression.
"The kitchen ain't the place for young ladies to get their dresses
dirty in, and their fingers burned," said Sukey severely.
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