"I'll show you how. Now, I lay those three on the ground like
that. Then I toss up this, pick up one without touching any of the
others, keep it in my hand and pick up the next--see?"

She illustrated her instruction by her work, while her pupil listened
and stared.

"I know--I know," he said quickly. "I show you." Then the wag of
a Delaware tossed the first stone fully twenty feet aloft, caught
up the others, and took that on the fly.

"I never saw anybody as dumb as you," was the comment. "What is
the use of your trying? You couldn't learn to play Jack Stones in
ever so long."

She was about to try him again, when, childlike, she darted off upon
a widely different subject, for it had just come into her little
head.

"Omas, when you were here the other day, you promised that the next
time you came to see me you would bring Linna."

"Dat so--Omas promise."

"Then why haven't you done as you said?"

"Omas never speak with double tongue; he bring Linna with him."

"You did?--where is she?" asked Alice, springing to her feet,
clasping her hands, and looking expectantly around.