"You're g-g-getting to be a regular old g-g-granny, that's what, with all your d-d-dismal p-p-prophesies.

" "My belief is," said Lady Belstone, "that Peter will just insist on all this wooden rubbish trotting back to the attics, where my dear granny, not being accustomed to wooden furniture, very properly hid it away.

'I'm thinking of calling on her mother,' old Mrs. Platt said, looking at her little grandson with her keen grey eyes; 'shall I take you with me to see the little girl?' 'I've seen her enough, granny.

'Well, I won't, granny, if I can help it,' he replied; 'but it is enough to make a fellow swear, it is so awfully hot.'

'I tell you, granny, if you bottle a fellow up too tight he'll split,' said Tom Loker.

"Gie's a piece, granny," they clamored.

Nor did their granny; she knew me by then.

Granny's challenge.

Granny's method.

R59623, 14Mar50, Paul Geraldy (A) <pb id='061.png' n='1950h1/A/0021' /> GRANNY BOLING, a play of Negro life, By Paul Greene.

"That's him, granny," the boy said, still severely; "that's the man as saved my life at the Slugs."

Twice at dinner her shaking hands knocked over her coffee-cup, and once the sorghum-pitcher, little fair-haired Evy cleaning up quietly after her granny, and placing things to her hand so deftly and furtively that she did not know it was done at all, while on her other side sat Marthy, ever kind, solicitous, and patient, and at the far end of the table John vied with her in unobtrusive but loving attentions to "maw."

" "Little boys should be civil," suggested Granny with a glance at the cap.

"With plenty to spare," retorted Granny.

"You had better go," Granny called from the kitchen.

The young man whom every one spoke of as "poor dear Herr Stangenberg" had not been dead a week, when Keith one afternoon on his return from school found himself alone in the house with Granny.

Granny need not be taken into account.

Granny sat on the sofa, stolid-faced as usual, and rolled one of her endless bandages.

"You had better go into the parlour, Keith," whispered Granny as she started on a new roll.

Granny on the sofa was signalling frantically to Keith to leave the room.

"Why don't you look in the paper," Granny asked him one day.

" "Do you think, Granny...."

"I don't think," retorted Granny.

I 'member; I was big enough to tote meat an' stuff frum de smokehouse to de kitchen and to tote water in and git wood for granny to cook de dinner and fur de sucklers who nu'sed de babies, an' I carried dinners back to de hands.

Beyond the ridge all-conquering British aeroplanes occupied the firmament, observing for "mother" and "granny" and signalling encouragement or reproof to these ponderous but sprightly relatives as their shells hit or missed the target.