"And test?" said some one down the table.
"And nest?" another called out.
"Can't you let him finish?" said Cottsill. And Egghorn continued, "Dropt, stopt, spilt, kilt, and so forth."
("Kilt!" whispered Miss Appleby. "Oh, dear!")
"Rattlet instead of rattled will look funny," observed some one.
"So will mart and wart," remarked Willows, "instead of marred and warred."
"If you have rattlet and mart and wart," yelled Totts, "I'll resign right now, right now, right now!"
"Who thought of having them, having them, having them?" thundered Cottsill.
"Gentlemen! Oh, Gentlemen!" wailed Kibosh.
"But consistency----" objected Maverick.
"You cut out consistency yourself," Cottsill reminded him. We despatched the past participles, and came also without much disturbance through catalog, demagog,
