1. The-glass-is-dly. 2. The-fluit-is-lipe. 3. The-chap-lal-is-gleen. 4. The-new-load-is-all-light-ee. 5. The bay-lum-tlee-is-flesh-and-plitty. Finally, when she attempted to introduce the sentence, ‘Around the rough and rugged rock the ragged rascal ran,’ Hop Yet rose hurriedly, remarking, ‘All lightee; I go no more school jus’ now. I lun get lunchee.’ Bell came running down the path just then, and linking her arm in Polly’s said, ‘Papa has the nicest plan. You know the boys are so disappointed that Colonel Jackson didn’t ask them over to that _rodeo_ at his cattle ranch—though a summer _rodeo_ is only to sort out fat cattle to sell, and it is not very exciting; but papa promised to tell them all about the old-fashioned kind some night, and he has just remembered that to-morrow is Admission Day, September 9, so he proposes a real celebration round the camp-fire to amuse Elsie. She doesn’t know anything about California even as it is now, and none of us know what it was in the old days. Don’t you think it will be fun?’ ‘Perfectly splendid!’ ‘And papa wants us each to contribute something.’ ‘A picnic!—but I don’t know anything.’ ‘That’s just what I’m coming to. I have such a bright idea. He said that we might look in any of his books, but Geoff and Jack are at them already, and I’d like a surprise. Now Juan Capistrano, an old vaquero of Colonel Jackson’s, is over here. He is a wonderful rider; papa says that he could ride on a comet, if he could get a chance to mount. It was he who told the boys that the rodeo was over. Now I propose that we go and interview Pancho and Juan, and get them to tell us some old California stories. They are both as stupid as they can be, but they must have had some adventures, I suppose, somewhere, sometime. I’ll translate and write the things down, for my part, and you and Margery can tell them.’ ‘Lovely! Oh, if we can only get an exciting grizzly story, so that Every one’s blood upon end it will stand, And the hair run cold in their veins! And was Dr. Paul out here when California was admitted into the Union—1850, wasn’t it?’ ‘Of course; why, my child, he was one of the delegates called by General Riley, the military governor, to meet in convention at Monterey and make a State constitution. That was September, too—the first day of September 1849. He went back to the East some time afterwards, and stayed ten or fifteen years; but he was a real pioneer and “forty-niner” all the same.