Uncle Fred says that it is no wonder , since we are a pair of holy terrors for getting into mischief and keeping everybody in hot water . But I think we are pretty good , considering all the temptations we have to be otherwise . And , of course , twins have just twice as many as ordinary children . Anyway , Father and Mother said we would have to stay home with Hannah Jane . This decision came upon us , as Johnny says , like a bolt from the blue . At first we could n't believe they were not joking . Why , we felt that we simply had to go to Pamelia 's wedding . We had never been to a wedding in our lives and we were just aching to see what it would be like . Besides , we had written a marriage ode to Pamelia and we wanted to present it to her . Johnny was to recite it , and he had been practising it out behind the carriage house for a week . I wrote the most of it . I can write poetry as slick as anything . Johnny helped me hunt out the rhymes . That is the hardest thing about writing poetry , it is so difficult to find rhymes . Johnny would find me a rhyme and then I would write a line to suit it , and we got on swimmingly . When we realized that Father and Mother meant what they said we were just too miserable to live . When I went to bed that night I simply pulled the clothes over my face and howled quietly . I could n't help it when I thought of Pamelia 's white silk dress and tulle veil and flower girls and all the rest . Johnny said it was the wedding dinner he thought about . Boys are like that , you know .
Father and Mother went away XXXXX the early morning train , telling us to be good twins and not bother Hannah Jane .
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