'
'Oh! Anne,' was the answer, 'you have robbed me of my best couplet--
Weeping like forsaken Dido,
When she found the slaughtered Fido.
Where is the use of playing if there is to be no fun?'
''Where is the use of fun?' said the cockchafer to the boy who was
spinning it,' said Anne.
'Impertinence, impertinence, impertinence,' said Rupert, shaking his
head at her.
By this time all was ready, and Elizabeth called the brother and
sister to take their places at the table in the inner drawing-room.
She then wrote a substantive at the upper end of a long strip of
paper, and folding it down, handed it on to Lucy, who also wrote a
noun, turned it down, and gave the paper to Helen, who, after writing
hers and hiding it, passed it on to Rupert. Thus the paper was
handed round till it was filled. It was then unrolled, and each
player was required to write a copy of verses in which these words
were to be introduced as rhymes in the order in which they stood in
the list. Rupert was rather put out by his sister's not allowing him
to turn the poem in the way he wished, and he thought proper to find
fault with half the words in the list.
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