Thicker than Water
when they arranged for a meeting the next day they did it without the knowledge of Freckles.
But many were the happy afternoons, following that first meeting, the two aliens spent together, and when night came it was even nicer, for they would lock their bedroom doors and give the mystic signal, and then lean out of their windows and talk to each other of Home and how funny it was to call trams street cars, and 'buses stages, and say blocks for squares. They also marvelled together at the queer little American pennies, and asked each other why it was poor Freckles always said kent instead of cawnt. They also decided that a country where one could n't buy brandy-balls was a dreadfully poor place to live, and that stone walls were much nicer than old board fences, especially board fences with so many nails in them. Mary Edith reluctantly confessed that ice cream soda was n't bad, and when the same young lady came into possession of a box of chocolate creams and these were transferred from one window to the other on the end of a parasol
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