Get a carpenter first. Fix the
house the way it will be most convenient and comfortable. Then
paint and paper, and get what new things you like, in reason -- of
course, in reason -- and then I want you should get all of us
clothes so's there ain't a noticeable difference between us and
the others when we come together here or elsewhere. Put in a
telephone; they're mighty handy, and if you can scrape up a place
-- I washed in Nancy Ellen's tub a few weeks ago. I never was wet
all over at once before in my life, and I'm just itching to try it
again. I say, let's have it, if it knocks a fair-sized hole in a
five-hundred-dollar bill. An' if we had the telephone right now,
we could call up folks an' order what we want without ever budgin'
out of our tracks. Go up ahead, Katie, I'll back you in anything
you can think of. It won't hurt my feelings a mite if you can
think of one or two things the rest of them haven't got yet.
Can't you think of something that will lay the rest of them clear
in the shade? I just wish you could. Now, I'm going to bed."
Kate went with her mother, opened her bed, pulled out the pins,
and brushed her hair, drew the thin cover over her, and blew out
the light.
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