. The key to Betsy's heart . of the core of the insideof the middle of the last dungeon of the heaved the excelsior before his frantic on-slaught, flying in every direction. It lay in heaps,around him, over him, under him, in front of him,behind him. It fell on the remotest breastworkof furniture. The rout was complete! No explosion couldhave rent that footstool more disastrously. Van Vans First Lessons 61 shook off the ruins that had landed on his back;lay down on the empty shell of what was nolonger and never more would be a footstool, andproceeded to divide the spoils, so to spe
. The key to Betsy's heart . of the core of the insideof the middle of the last dungeon of the heaved the excelsior before his frantic on-slaught, flying in every direction. It lay in heaps,around him, over him, under him, in front of him,behind him. It fell on the remotest breastworkof furniture. The rout was complete! No explosion couldhave rent that footstool more disastrously. Van Vans First Lessons 61 shook off the ruins that had landed on his back;lay down on the empty shell of what was nolonger and never more would be a footstool, andproceeded to divide the spoils, so to speak. He worked through long and short division,and was worrying through a problem in fractions which concerned the last fragment that could stillbe called carpet, when Mrs. Johns and Betsyappeared in the doorway. Through a haze they dimly saw a brown andwhite morsel of live joy, triumphing in the midstof a drifting mass of excelsior. Van lifted hishead proudly and looked at them, as if he wouldsay, Alone I did it! Excelsior!. CHAPTER VI BETSYS FIRST LESSONS I (t T was a summer fullof events for bothVan and his mis-tress. Slowly and pa-tiently Aunt Kate cor-rected Betsys uncouthways, and the book ofManners grew. Betsytook smaller mouthfulsnow, used her forkproperly and ate quiet-ly. She learned hertricks like Van, havingto be told but once. Ifshe forgot she correct-ed herself. Aunt Kate said one I can stand it a week/ day to Uncle Ben, 62 Betsys First Lessons 63 The child eats everything I say to her, asif she were greedy for it, and whats more, shedigests it. Shes just at the impressionable age, saidDr. Johns. Look at her out on the lawn therewith the dog. When she thinks no one is lookingat her she gambols almost as gracefully as hedoes. Im so glad she came to us. Everything seemsdifferent. I feel as if I had a rare, strange plantto tend, and when she grows out of that hardlittle bud of shyness, shell be the rose of myhearts desire. It was a great inspiration, gettingher into p
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