Nothing more was necessary except to shake up the mixture in order to facilitate the process of solution, and the medicine was ready.
_A Medium of Reproof._ Delia was accustomed to use the dolls not only for the purpose of instruction, but sometimes for reproof, in many ingenious ways.

For instance, one day the children had been playing upon the piazza with blocks and other playthings, and finally had gone into the house, leaving all the things on the floor of the piazza, instead of putting them away in their places, as they ought to have done.

They were now playing with their dolls in the parlor.
Delia came to the parlor, and with an air of great mystery beckoned the children aside, and said to them, in a whisper, "Leave Andella and Rosalie here, and don't say a word to them.

I want you to come with me.

There is a secret--something I would not have them know on any account." So saying, she led the way on tiptoe, followed by the children out of the room, and round by a circuitous route to the piazza.
"There!" said she, pointing to the playthings; "see! all your playthings left out! Put them away quick before Andella and Rosalie see them.