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OW do you suppose Chester will take to having a girl living in the same house with him all the time?"

It was Dad's voice. I sat up in the hammock and wondered if there was anything the matter with my ears. Why on earth should Dad say a thing like that?

The hammock was on the veranda just outside of the dining-room window, and I'd been asleep init. It was a blazing hot day, right in the middle of August, and I had gone out there after dinner to make up my mind what I would do that afternoon. It's funny how quick you'll go to sleep on a hot day! You'll be sitting and swinging your feet and kicking your heels on the floor to see how loud you can make the hooks and staples creak; and then you'll decide, maybe, to go and fix the