146 ‘THE SILVER LAKE STORIES.

had not only soiled her hands, and her
fingers, in a dish of gooseberry jelly,
but had left the marks of it upon the
caps and handkerchiefs, newly bleached,
which Mary had laid aside upon the
shelf, till she could find time to iron
them over. ae |

This story was repeated in the parlor,
and the evening was passed in bursts
of hearty laughter at the expense of the
little cowards.