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 hear plain the voices of Algernon and his nurse, and occasionally the voice of Angenora, enough to show she wuz there, and we heard swear words and nasty words, lots of 'em, words that our grandchildren, in their love-guarded home, had never dremp of and wouldn't as long as their Pa's and Ma's and grandparents had eyes to see and ears to hear. Miss Greene Smythe looked up to me and sez, "I am ashamed of the way that boy talks, but he got it from his nurse, she is good as gold in some things, but has got a voylent temper, and when she is angry she uses awful language, but she don't have her mad fits often."

And I sez, "Hain't you afraid it will ruin the twins to be under such influence now in the most impressionable age?"

And she admitted she had worried some about it, and sez she, "I should got rid of her long ago, but she is a be-a-uti-ful hairdresser, that wuz her father's bizness, and her mother wuz a dressmaker, and she has natural taste about dress. And you know if hair don't have proper attention it will lose its gloss and won't friz as it ought to. And, as for loopin' up drapery, I have never seen that woman's equal in my life, my maid is jest nowhere beside her. And goin' into society as much as I do, you can see how necessary it is I should have some one right in the house that I can depend on, that I can put confidence in as to the hanging of my skirt, and my bangs."

"Well," sez I, in a ruther cold axent, "if you don't see curiouser loopin's and bangs in the twin's heads and hearts bime-by than any you ever had in a dress or foretop, then I'll miss my guess." And I went on and argued with her for quite a spell for the children's good.