Excerpt: ...asked Bep, feeling it to be the partizan's duty to doubt. "Uh-huh!" The small fabricator nodded her head in slow and awful confirmation. "That shows, Frank Madigan!" said Bep, scornfully turning her back. "He never whips with more than two fingers." And yet it was the confident belief of the Madigans that if it had been anybody but Sissy, that somebody would have been eaten alive! It was Split who next adopted the Last Straw. Under her tutelage Frank learned to climb her sister's body and stand upright and ...
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Excerpt: ...asked Bep, feeling it to be the partizan's duty to doubt. "Uh-huh!" The small fabricator nodded her head in slow and awful confirmation. "That shows, Frank Madigan!" said Bep, scornfully turning her back. "He never whips with more than two fingers." And yet it was the confident belief of the Madigans that if it had been anybody but Sissy, that somebody would have been eaten alive! It was Split who next adopted the Last Straw. Under her tutelage Frank learned to climb her sister's body and stand upright and fearless on her shoulders. She was also initiated into the great game of "fats," which the Madigans played winter evenings on the crumb-cloth in the dining-room; said crumb-cloth being printed in large squares of red and white, one of which was chalked off for the ring. Pg. 197 Frank's induction into the game led to a grand battle between Split and Sissy, the latter contending that the baby's fingers could not properly handle and shoot the marbles. But Sissy ought to have known better than to make such a point, as the Madigans had a peculiar way of playing fats, for which Frank
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