Part 5 (1/2)
”'And now, is there any little boy or any little girl ould like to ask me a question?'
”And one boy called out: 'Say, Mister, if the angels had wings why did they walk up and down Jacob's ladder?'”
”Mercy!” ejaculated Mrs Brandon ”What could he say?”
”That is it You can't catch the Reverend,” laughed Nell, proudly
”And nothing ever confuses him or puts him out He just said:
”'Oh, ah, yes, I see And now, is there any little boy or any little girl ould like to answer that question?' And he bowed and slipped out”
The laughter over this incident brought the the kindly Brandons for the evening's pleasure Nell lived a little further along, and went on with Mr and Mrs Brandon
”If I can find the tiain, ”I a your aerials, Jessie”
”If I am allowed to,” commented Jessie, with a sudden fear that perhaps her father would find some objection to the new amusement
But this small fear was iood-night She found her father and e of radio books had been opened, and Mr and Mrs
Noras each reading interestedly one of the pamphlets Jessie had chosen at the bookshop
The three spent an hour discussing the new ”plaything,” as Mr Norwood insisted upon calling it But he agreed to everything his daughter wanted to do, and even pro set than Brill, the hardware
”As far as I can see, however, from what I read here,” said Mr
Norwood, ”a better set willthe aerials You and Aht ahead”
”Oh, but, Robert,” said Mrs Norwood, ”do you think the two girls can do that work?”
”Why not? Of course Jessie and Amy can If they need any help they can ask one of the ardener, or so to do it all ourselves!” cried Jessie, eagerly ”This is going to be our very owniest own radio You'll see We'll put the set upstairs in my room”
”Wouldn't you rather have it downstairs--in the drawing-room, for instance?” asked herit off to all your friends And pretty soon it will be the fahed ”I read here that the ordinary aerials will do very well for a sested, too, that patents are pending that may make outside aerials unnecessary, anyway Don't youset for our drawing-room, we'll have it in spite of Jessie And we'll use her aerials, too”
The next day Brill sent up the things Jessie had purchased, but the girls could not begin the actual stringing of the copper wires until theAmple study of the directions for the work printed in the books Jessie had selected made the chums confident that they knew just what to do
The s of Jessie's room on the second floor of the Norwood house were not much more than seventy-five feet from the corner of an orna to the place It was a tank tower, and water and light had been furnished to the entire premises from this tower before the city plants had extended their service out Bonwit Boulevard and through Roselawn
Jessie's room had been the nursery when Jessie was little It was now a lovely, coray and pink,furniture and cushi+ons covered with lovely cretonne, an open fireplace in which real logs could be burned in the winter, and pictures of the girl's own selection
Her books were here And all her personal possessions, including tennis rackets, riding whip and spurs, canoe paddle, and even a bag of golf sticks, were arranged in ”Jessie's roo room, too, and if the radio was successful they could entertain twenty guests here if they wanted to
”But, of course, father is getting a set with phones, not with an amplifier like that one out at Parkville,” Jessie explained to her chum ”If ant to use a horn afterward, we may Now, Amy, do you understand what there is to do?”
”Sure We've got to get out our farardens two years ago”