After a few more jumps Sally arrived at the house of the Justice of Peace, in front of which stood a large apple tree which shaded the stone well.

Here stood Kaetheli who did not look sick at all, but splashed with two fat, red arms about the water in which she seemed to clean some object eagerly.
"Then you are not sick.

Why didn't you come to school then ?" Sally called out when she saw her.
"Oh, it is you?
Good evening! I could not make out who was jumping about, and I hadn't the time to look," Kaetheli said with some importance.

"That is also the reason why I did not go to school.

I hadn't the time, for Mother has gone away today to see sick Grandmother, and then we got young chickens, twelve quite small ones, and that is why I have to wash a stocking, for I have run after the chicks everywhere and near the barn I stepped in the dirt quite deep.