158 May comes to the Rescue.

 

some in their tea when they all sat
down together, while one lump each
was given to May and Johnny to do
as they liked with. And as you may
be sure, they each chose to keep it to
eat afterwards, being quite content
with moist sugar in their milk and
water.

Well, they both enjoyed the sugar
very much; but May, when she had
finished hers, thought no more of it.

Not so Master Johnny. Un-
fortunately, as she was busy talking,
the mother left that basin, with a
good many lumps still in it, on the
chest at the end of the room; and
thus, as he ran in and out at his
play, and was every now and then