Most likely you'll have to go after him." "What's the use of provoking a fellow so, Aunt Rachel ?" said Jack.

"You know I'm 'most eighteen.

Hardly sixteen! Why, I might as well say you're hardly forty, when we all know you're fifty." "Fifty!" ejaculated the scandalized spinster.

"It's a base slander.

I'm only thirty-seven." "Maybe I'm mistaken," said Jack, carelessly.