"
"Ah, here I begin to remember. You draw the pictures, and I'll describe
myself. Four years old!--let me see--I had a sled for Christmas, and I
used to eat green apples. That's all I can remember; and five and six
years old were just the same."
"O, no, I'm sure you went to church for the first time somewhere along
there; and isn't that a noteworthy event? I suppose all your thoughts
were of your button boots and your new parasol?"
"I behaved beautifully, I know; mamma says so; sat up like a lady, while
you were sleeping, on that very same Sunday, off in some little country
church, I suppose."
"I shouldn't wonder--sleeping in my brother's outgrown coat into the
bargain, with the sleeves dangling over my little brown hands."
"It doesn't seem as if they could ever have been very little, does it,
Mr. Mann?"
Mr. Mann unfolded five fingers and a thumb and surveyed them gravely for
a moment. "It is strange that this once measured three inches by two and
couldn't hit out any better than your's could.
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