`` You keep your drawers in the cabinet all spandy nice ; why ca n't you do the others ? '' `` I ai n't used to it . Will you show me how ? '' and Dan looked as if inclined to try Demi 's childish way of keeping a soul in order . `` I 'd love to , but I do n't know how , except to talk as Grandpa does . I ca n't do it good like him , but I 'll try . '' `` Do n't tell any one ; only now and then we 'll come here and talk things over , and I 'll pay you for it by telling all I know about my sort of things . Will that do ? '' and Dan held out his big , rough hand . Demi gave his smooth , little hand readily , and the league was made ; for in the happy , peaceful world where the younger boy lived , lions and lambs played together , and little children innocently taught their elders . `` Hush ! '' said Dan , pointing toward the house , as Demi was about to indulge in another discourse on the best way of getting badness down , and keeping it down ; and peeping from their perch , they saw Mrs. Jo strolling slowly along , reading as she went , while Teddy trotted behind her , dragging a little cart upside down . `` Wait till they see us , '' whispered Demi , and both sat still as the pair came nearer , Mrs. Jo so absorbed in her book that she would have walked into the brook if Teddy had not stopped her by saying , `` Marmar , I wanter fis . '' Mrs. Jo put down the charming book which she had been trying to read for a week , and looked about her for a fishing-pole , being used to making toys out of nothing . Before she had broken one from the hedge , a slender willow bough fell at her feet ; and , looking up , she saw the boys laughing in the nest . `` Up ! up ! '' cried Teddy , stretching his arms and flapping his skirts as if about to fly . `` I 'll come down and you come up . I must go to Daisy now ; '' and Demi departed to rehearse the tale of the nineteen cats , with the exciting boot-and-barrel episodes .
XXXXX was speedily whisked up ; and then Dan said , laughing , `` Come , too ; there 's plenty of room .
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