156 May comes to the Rescue. only half understand what they are like. Now get ready for a very sad story. Johnny had, as you know, what is called a very sweet tooth; in other words, he was very fond of what I daresay you call, as he did, by the name of goodies. And his father, who liked to please his little man, pretty often brought him home a pennyworth or so on a Saturday night, when he came home from work; while his kind mother would sometimes, when he had been very good, give him a taste out of the sugar-basin. When grandmother came over she sometimes brought a little lump sugar