I've made it a rule to tell ma everything I do ever since the Judgment Day." "Besides," added Cecily seriously, "the Family Guide says one ought to tell one's mother everything." "It's pretty hard sometimes, though," sighed Sara.

"Ma scolds so much when I do tell her things, that it sort of discourages me.

But when I think of how dreadful I felt the time of the Judgment Day over deceiving her in some things it nerves me up.

I'd do almost anything rather than feel like that the next time the Judgment Day comes." "Fe, fi, fo, fum, I smell a story," said Uncle Blair.

"What do you mean by speaking of the Judgment Day in the past tense ?" The Story Girl told him the tale of that dreadful Sunday in the preceding summer and we all laughed with him at ourselves.
"All the same," muttered Peter, "I don't want to have another experience like that.