70 TROTTY'S WEDDING TOUR. CHAPTER VIII. THE THIRD STORY. ee was never any more talk about printing the boys’ stories “all at once, and the girls’ all at the same time.’ They took the stories just as Trotty wanted them, — for after all it was Trotty’s book, — and Trotty was quite as likely to want a girl as a boy, next time. So they were mixed along just as girls and boys are mixed along at home and at school and all through the world ; and that is the way, I think, to make a story-book, or anything else, as interesting as it ought to be. Trotty soon got tired of printing. It hurt his foot a little, | but it hurt his temper a good deal more. Lill said he spelled so many words wrong. And the printer’s ink tasted so, and he never could find out how it got into his mouth. And then it seemed too much like being at school to have to think about your capitals and periods and all that. So he created himself foreman by a unanimous vote, and sat back in his sick-chair and read the stories aloud for his compositors to print. The third story he selected was this : —