So before an hour had passed
old Larry was standing complete before them.
"I congratulate you, my friends," he said, speaking in a cheerful
voice. "You are certainly the cleverest people who ever visited us.
I was never matched together so quickly in my life. I'm considered a
great puzzle, usually."
"Well," said Dorothy, "there used to be a picture puzzle craze in
Kansas, and so I've had some 'sperience matching puzzles. But the
pictures were flat, while you are round, and that makes you harder to
figure out."
"Thank you, my dear," replied old Larry, greatly pleased. "I feel
highly complimented. Were I not a really good puzzle, there would be
no object in my scattering myself."
"Why do you do it?" asked Aunt Em, severely. "Why don't you behave
yourself, and stay put together?"
The Lord High Chigglewitz seemed annoyed by this speech; but he
replied, politely:
"Madam, you have perhaps noticed that every person has some
peculiarity. Mine is to scatter myself. What your own peculiarity is
I will not venture to say; but I shall never find fault with you,
whatever you do."
"Now you've got your diploma, Em," said Uncle Henry, with a laugh,
"and I'm glad of it.
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