They tried all the occupations and professions, and went through the stores and spelled all sorts of hardware, china and dry goods.

Each side kept cheering its own and urging them to do their best, and every few minutes some man in the back of the house said something that was too funny.

When Miss Amelia pronounced "bombazine" to Laddie our side cried, "Careful, Laddie, careful! you're out of your element!" And when she gave "swivel-tree" to the Princess, her side whispered, "Go easy! Do you know what it is?
Make her define it." They branched over the country.

May met her Jonah on the mountains.
Katahdin was too much for her, and Laddie and the Princess were left to fight it out alone.

I didn't think Laddie liked it.