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dried, crooked stem (which would make a beautiful 

 balcony), and in this one we made two doors, front 

 and back, and nailed it to another post in case Spilly 

 Willy had a cousin or college chum who also wanted 

 to go to hurried housekeeping. We had scarcely 

 gotten it iu place when Tildy curiosity beset 

 woman flitted over to investigate the new house 

 and went in the back door and out of the front door 

 and sat on the balcony and went indoors again and 

 squatted down to try its hatching qualities ; and then 

 out she came and called to Spilly Willy (who was 

 still trying, manlike, to do an impossible mathe- 

 matical problem with twigs) to come over and behold 

 this model abode with all the modern improvements. 

 After much feminine argument Tildy had her way, 

 of course, and Spilly Willy reluctantly gave up the 

 rustic cottage he'd set his heart on and began all 

 over again the task of bringing twigs for the furnish- 

 ing. I never saw such work as those two accom- 

 plished in the next few days and I never heard 

 such rapturous singing as they kept up perpetually, 

 perfect cataracts of music tumbling from their little 

 throats. 



Then the laying started and poor Spilly Willy was 

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