"'You are
requested to appear--'"
"Hold on!" cried Jasper, turning over the notice. "Who told you to read it
out, pray tell?"
"I'm on the Committee, I'd have you know," said Pickering coolly.
"Well, we'll pitch you out," said Jasper, "neck and heels, if you don't
take care. Well, but really this is awful work." He whirled over the notice
again, and glared at it savagely.
"Why don't we just say, 'A Cooking Club is to be formed'?" proposed Polly,
"and----"
"Oh, that will be elegant," interrupted Alexia, clapping her hands. "Oh,
Polly, you write it."
"Oh, I couldn't," said Polly, drawing back.
"Yes, Polly. do," begged Jasper.
"Oh, no, you write it," said Polly.
"Well, then, you tell me what to say," said Jasper, laughing.
"She did," said Alexia impatiently. "A Cooking Club is to be
formed'--didn't you hear her?"
"I have that," said Jasper, scribbling away on a fresh piece of paper. "Now
what next?"
"Go on, Polly," said Alexia.
"Well--oh, 'Will you please come to the first meeting?'"
"'And see how you like it,'" finished Alexia; "that's just elegant--do
write it down, Jasper."
"You may be sure I will," cried Jasper, vastly pleased that he was to be
helped out, and finishing it all up with great energy. "Well, what else?"
and he poised his pen in air and looked at Polly.
"Why, isn't that enough?" said Polly, a little pucker beginning to come on
her forehead.
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