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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX A SPKING KAMBLE "Only think!" cried Marjorie, as she sprang out of bed, " Father and Mother are coming home today!" "Hooray!" cried Kitty, tumbling out of her bed at the joyful reminder. "Won't I be glad to see them, though! Aren't we going to celebrate?" "Not any regular celebration. It'll be fun enough just to see them, and hear them tell about their trip." "Yes, indeed; so it will. And, of course, we'll have ice cream." "Oh, of course; I told Ellen that, yesterday." A little later, two trim and tidy little Maynard girls went downstairs to the cheerful dining-room. "Hello-morning!" cried King, meeting them on the landing. "Going to school to-day, Mops?" "Yes, of course; why not?" "Oh, I thought as Mother's coming home, we might take a holiday." / "No, I don't want to. They don't come till afternoon, you know, and if I hung round here all day, I'd just die waiting for 'em. Going to school will fill up the morning, anyway." "That's so; say we go, then. Hello, Rosy Posy; did I 'most upset you?" The four danced into the dining-room, where Miss Larkin and breakfast awaited them. "I do think," said Midget, as she ate her cereal, "that, considering we're Maynards, we have behaved pretty well since Mother's been away." "Sure we have!" agreed King; " if I get much better, I'll spoil." "I'm spoiling for some mischief, as it is," said Marjorie, with dancing eyes. "Oh, Mops," begged Kitty, " don't cut up any jinks before Mother gets home." "Well, I won't," said Mops, who didn't mean her speech as seriously as Kitty took it; "but after she gets home, I'm going to cut up the biggest jink I can think of." "Are you, really?" said Miss Larkin, with such a horrified expression that the three children could not help giggling. "I dunno, Larky, ..".