OF SOMEBODIES AND NOBODIES At the second turning Arthur rounded the tandem out of Jefferson Street into Willow with a skill that delighted both him and his sister.

"But why go that way ?" said she.

"Why not through Monroe street?
I'm sure the horses would behave." "Better not risk it," replied Arthur, showing that he, too, had had, but had rejected, the temptation to parade the crowded part of town.

"Even if the horses didn't act up, the people might, they're such jays." Adelaide's estimate of what she and her brother had acquired in the East was as high as was his, and she had the same unflattering opinion of those who lacked it.

But it ruffled her to hear him call the home folks jays--just as it would have ruffled him had she been the one to make the slighting remark.