"There was not a day of his life that your pa did not spend hours drillin' ye in things the rest of the girls in your school never heard of.

'Tain't no high-school girl that's written them articles.

It's Alexander Strong speakin' through the medium of his own flesh and blood." "Why, so it is, Katy!" cried Linda delightedly.

"You know, I never thought of that.

I have been so egoistical I thought I was doing them myself." "Paid ye anything yet ?" queried Katy.
"No," said Linda, "they haven't.