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 308  and we'll never mention it again, Sarah, But anyway, girls, this foolish brother and sister quarrelled, and the brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law and even the grandmother, who was old enough to know better, quarrelled, until finally all four of those hot-tempered young persons were so angry that the brother named Peter said he'd never speak to his sister again, and the sister named Sarah said she'd never speak to her brother again—and they haven't until this very day. Just a pair of young geese, weren't they, Sarah?"

"Old geese, too," agreed Mrs. Crane, "for they've both been fearfully lonely ever since and they've both been too proud to say so. One of them, at least, has wished a great many times that there had never been any quarrel."

"Two of 'em. But now this one," said Mr. Black, placing his forefinger against his own broad chest, "is going to ask this one (he pointed to Mrs. Crane) to come and live