164 May comes to the Rescue.

 

Just then May began to come
downstairs; and Johnny heard her
foot on the first step. So there was
no time to enjoy that lump. He
had to munch it up, and swallow it
as fast as he could. It was not any
pleasure; and what to do with the
other two lumps he did not know.

Before May could get downstairs,
too, in came somebody else, and that
somebody was Johnny’s mother.

Now Johnny’s mother had very
quick eyes. She found out in a
minute when anything was the
matter; and her little boy’s red
cheeks and confused way of looking
at her, instantly made her suspect
something. Then she looked all