. St. Nicholas [serial]. cent be-tween them; and seeing Angelinas purchase,they too wished to buy. Johnny sold them acents worth. Made em ourselves, he said airily. How did you do it ? asked the twins, inawe. Oh, it s easy, answered Johnny. Justtake sand and salt and red pepper and blackpepper, and twist em up in paper. I could doit wiv my eyes shut. Johnny, intent upon proving to the twins theease with which torpedoes could be made,mixed more stuffing ; Mariannina cut twocovers; and there were now two brand-newhome-made torpedoes, one for Isabel and onefor Amabel. Aim, fire, bang! shouted Joh
. St. Nicholas [serial]. cent be-tween them; and seeing Angelinas purchase,they too wished to buy. Johnny sold them acents worth. Made em ourselves, he said airily. How did you do it ? asked the twins, inawe. Oh, it s easy, answered Johnny. Justtake sand and salt and red pepper and blackpepper, and twist em up in paper. I could doit wiv my eyes shut. Johnny, intent upon proving to the twins theease with which torpedoes could be made,mixed more stuffing ; Mariannina cut twocovers; and there were now two brand-newhome-made torpedoes, one for Isabel and onefor Amabel. Aim, fire, bang! shouted Johnny. Isabeland Amabel obeyed. A painful surprise awaited them. The little white balls dropped as gentlyas kernels of popcorn. Then Uncle Joey had to come out and setall things right in the eyes of the truth was known, and Angelina andIsabel and Amabel found they had boughtcommon store torpedoes, they objected. I only bought em, said Angelina, causeI thought they were home-made. So did we, added the Y \t ISABEL AND AMABEL. All right, said Uncle Joey, kindly; bringthe torpedoes and you can have your money. But we ve fired em all off. Well, replied Uncle Joey, I suppose Ishall have to pay you out of my own as he had no change smaller than five-cent pieces, he was obliged to give five centsto Angelina, and five to the twins. Then itoccurred to him that it was rather cruel toleave out John Hancock and Mariannina; sohe gave five cents to each of these. Now, said he, looking around at the littlegroup, I hope everybody is satisfied. But no! Isabel Bolton, the smaller of thetwins, lifted up her voice and wept; for Amabelhad taken charge of the Bolton five-cent piece,and Isabels little fat hand was empty; andUncle Joey got out one more five-cent pieceto dry her tears, and then all was right again.
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