`` Oh , we just play be men , and sit round stiff and stupid like grown-up folks , and dance to please the girls . Then we eat up everything , and come away as soon as we can . '' `` I think I could do that , '' said Nat , after considering Tommy 's description for a minute . `` I 'll write and say we 'll come ; '' and Demi despatched the following gentlemanly reply , `` We will all come . Please have lots to eat . J. B. Esquire . '' Great was the anxiety of the ladies about their first ball , because if every thing went well they intended to give a dinner-party to the chosen few . `` Aunt Jo likes to have the boys play with us , if they are not rough ; so we must make them like our balls , then they will do them good , '' said Daisy , with her maternal air , as she set the table and surveyed the store of refreshments with an anxious eye . `` Demi and Nat will be good , but Tommy will do something bad , I know he will , '' replied Nan , shaking her head over the little cake-basket which she was arranging . `` Then I shall send him right home , '' said Daisy , with decision . `` People do n't do so at parties , it is n't proper . '' `` I shall never ask him any more . '' `` That would do . He 'd be sorry not to come to the dinner-ball , would n't he ? '' `` I guess he would ! we 'll have the splendidest things ever seen , wo n't we ? Real soup with a ladle and a tureem -LSB- she meant tureen -RSB- and a little bird for turkey , and gravy , and all kinds of nice vegytubbles . '' Daisy never could say vegetables properly , and had given up trying . `` It is ` most three , and we ought to dress , '' said Nan , who had arranged a fine costume for the occasion , and was anxious to wear it . `` I am the mother , so I sha n't dress up much , '' said Daisy , putting on a night-cap ornamented with a red bow , one of her aunt 's long skirts , and a shawl ; a pair of spectacles and large pocket handkerchief completed her toilette , making a plump , rosy little matron of her .
XXXXX had a wreath of artificial flowers , a pair of old pink slippers , a yellow scarf , a green muslin skirt , and a fan made of feathers from the duster ; also , as a last touch of elegance , a smelling-bottle without any smell in it .
Demi Esquire Jo Nan dinner-party right splendidest tureem tureen vegytubbles