human
Peggy, wake up! Wake up! What do you think? Aunt Janet has filled stockings and hung them on the foot of the bed. She must have slipped in while we were sound asleep, and oh, I don't wonder we slept after that dance, do you?
gpt
Whow! Ooo! yawned Peggy, to whom late hours were a novelty and who felt as though she had dropped asleep only ten minutes before.
human
Why, Polly Howland, it's pitch dark, and midnight! I know it is, she protested.
gpt
How do you know there are stockings there, anyway?
human
I was shivering and when I reached over to get the puff cover my hand touched something bumpy. I've felt of it and I KNOW it's a stocking. I never thought of having one, for I thought all those things were way back in little girl days. But turn on the electric lights quick--they're on your side of the bed--and we'll see what's in them; the stockings, I mean.
gpt
Goodness, isn't it freezing cold, she cried.
human
Let's put the puff cover around us, and rolled up in the big down coverlet the girls dove into their bumpy stockings, exclaiming or laughing over the contents, for evidently the boys had been in the secret, for out of Peggy's came a little bronze cow and calf labeled
gpt
C. and S.
human
Now what in the world does C. and S. stand for, I wonder?
gpt
Oh, Peggy, those are the initials for 'Clean and Sober,' the report the officer-of-the-deck makes when the enlisted men come aboard after being on liberty. If they are intoxicated and untidy they check them up D. and D.--which means Drunk and Dirty. You'll never hear the last of Betsy Brindle's caper.
human
Well look and see what they've run you about, for you won't escape, I'll wager,