"That's my father," she said when she could find her voice. Both
girls and boys crowded around to look at the kind, handsome face
gazing at them from out the little watch, and Ruth's heart swelled
with pride and affection as she listened to their admiring remarks.
"Let's show them the game we tried the other night," said Dorothy
to her brother as they all returned to the music-room.
"Oh, that's too hard for them," answered Frank with affected
superiority. "They couldn't guess anything so difficult as that."
"Try it and see," clamored two or three voices.
So Frank with one finger drew a large circle in the air, and with
elaborate gestures made two points for the eyes and a line each
for nose and mouth. As he did so he recited solemnly:
"The moon is large and full and round; Two eyes, a nose and mouth."
"Now see if you can do it just as I did," he said to Jack, who sat
next him.
Jack tried, imitating as nearly as he could remember all of Frank's
peculiar movements of hand and arm, but as he finished Dorothy and
Frank shouted, "No; not right."
"Do it again, Frank," begged Charlotte, watching him sharply.
Frank did it again, and this time with even more elaboration
of gesture.
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