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104 how a boy feels, because you have been old so long, that's all."

"Guide us!" murmured Eppie, who had that moment come in with a new dish..

"And so we're going to try and feel a little older; and maybe you could try and feel a little younger, and so we should get along better," added Willie calmly.

The minister stared at them. Was this impertinence? The twins stared back.

A dull flush rose in the minister's cheeks. Then he spoke:

"I will be glad if you will eat, and not talk foolishly," he said. "The table is not the place for talking especially for children."

So their well-meant effort at coming to an understanding with their uncle failed. Sorrowfully, and perhaps a little angrily, the boys ate their plain but wholesome meal, and a deeper gloom settled over their minds.