And then when I saw your bed all fixed so nice for the night, I thought it would be fun to powder your pillow.

I've heard of people doing it before.

I didn't make it up myself.

So I shook the powder all over your pillow, and then of course you put your head on it, and of course it made your hair white." Marjorie's parents looked aghast, for to them it seemed as if she had simply played a practical joke on her grandmother, and one not easily forgiven, but Grandpa Maynard expressed himself in a series of chuckles.
"Chip of the old block," he said.

"Chip of the old block! Just what you would have done, Ed, when you were a boy, if you had thought of it! Marjorie, practical jokes run in the family, and you can't help your propensity for them! I don't approve of them, mind you, I don't approve of them, but once in a while when one works out so perfectly, I can't help enjoying it.