Those Extraordinary Twins

travaganza. Aunt Patsy Cooper has received their letter applying for board and l

don't fly around so; it fairly makes me tired

on't you? It shows

y brother and I have seen your advertisement,

and smooth, ma-do

to take the room you offer. We are t

are handsome, and I just know they

ticular. 'We are I

n one in this town, and everybody will want to

ious countries of Europe, and sev

s they've seen, ma! Won't i

kon so. 'Our names are L

ul! Not like Jones and Robins

ill not discommode you. We will sleep together in the same bed. We have always been

ait, ma! The time does drag along so, and I'm so dying to

ell, child? Mostly they ar

do you reckon is

s knows-

rettiest name, anyway. Don't y

new the way to pronounce them-the Eyetalian way, I mean. Th

the letter. What do you reckon is

s the difference who writes

se he is sick! You don't th

nny; what's to

kind of names are so delicate, and of course that kind of n

rags along; Thursday comes: the boat arr

single pair of legs! It-or they, as you please-bowed with elaborate foreign formality, but the Coopers could not respond immediately; they were paralyzed. At this moment there came from the rear of the group a fervent ejaculation-"My lan'!"-followed by a crash of crockery,

(the other head bowed) "and myself-Count Angelo; and at the same time offer sincere apol

rl of amazement and confusion,

g, don't mention it. This is my daughter Rowena, sir-gentlemen. Please step into the parlor and sit

ly out of their beds longer; then each head bowed in turn and uttered a friendly good night, and the singul

lashing and thrashing of the rain along the windows and the roof, the white glare of the lightning, the tumultuous booming and bellowing of the thunder; conscious of nothing but that prodigy, that uncanny apparition that had come and gone so suddenly-that

just the mere look

ll caked; she had not yet found her voice. Pr

I was thinking it was to accommodate me. I thought it was ver

ejudice against him. I'm sure he is good-hear

left-I mean the one on it's left-hasn't near

's Lu

oor. Up to all kinds of mischief and disobedience when he was a boy, I'll be bound. I lay his mother had tro

's An

eir names, yet awhile. But it's the right-hand one-the blond one. He

beautiful! But both are that; the dark one's as beautiful as-a picture. There's no such wonderful faces a

ell which they belonged

see them take o

ell. There was just a wormy squirming of arms in the air-seemed to be a couple o

difficulty. There's two

od, would it? Of course not. Each has an arm on each shoulder. Now then, you tell me which of them belongs to which, if you can. They don't know, them

gument, so the daughter abandoned the struggle

werful wet, just drenched, you may say. I hope it

ittle start, and

e one on the left-no, it was the one to the east of the other one-but I didn't hear the other

alling one is calling both. If

e along, maybe we can get some sleep, but I don't k

, too. They had a word of talk as they were get

sorry for it,

ld, active, enterprising, and

an't stir a step without attrac

id, repr

ying it, Joe, y

fix me so I can eat for two and only have to stub toes for one

ing kind, and came high up under the ears, like the sides of a wheelbarrow, as required by the fashion of the day. The cravats were as broad as a bankbill, with fringed ends which stood far out to right and left like the wings of a dragon-fly, and this also was strictly in accordance with the fashion of the time. Each cravat, as to color, was in perfect taste, so far as its owner's complexion was

wear such tight boots

red with in

ording to my own convenience, as I have remarked more than several ti

his eyes. There was gentle reproach in hi

est; I try to make you feel at home; when you are in command you treat me as an intruder, you make me fee

brother languidly, and with the air

Paine's Age of Reason in his hand, sat down in one chair and put his feet in another and lit his pipe, while Angelo took his Whole Duty of Man, and both began to read.

cco, I am sure I could learn not to mind it in time,

he trouble is already over with me; if you would try, you could learn too, a

sn't quite fair. I only complain when I suffocate; yo

ou could learn t

my principles. You would not have me

, b

ook and asked Luigi to sing "From Greenland's Icy Mountains" with him, but he would not, and when he tried to sing by

t out Luigi swallowed half a tumbler of whisky, and Angelo, whose sensitive organization co