12 A Meeting
One evening, a few days after the writing had appeared in Charlotte's web,
the spider called a meeting of all the animals in the barn cellar.
"I shall begin by calling the roll. Wilbur?" "Here!" said the pig.
"Gander?" "Here, here, here, here!" said the gander.
"You sound like three ganders," muttered Charlotte. "Why can't you just say 'here'?
Why do you have tp repeat everything? "
"It's my idio-idio-idiosyncrasy," replied the gander.
"Goose?" saud Charlotte. "Here,here,here!" said the goose. Charlotte glared at her.
"Goslings, one through seven?" "Bee-bee-bee!"....
"This is getting to be quite a meeting," said Charlotte.
"Anybody would think we had three ganders, three geese, and twenty-one goslings.
"Sheep?" "He-aa-aa!" answered the sheep all together.
"Lambs?" "He-aa-aa!" answered the lambs all together.
"Templeton?" No answer. "Templeton?" No answer.
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