"I only rubbed some jam on its cheeks to make them a nicey pink--only some of it _would_ sticky her dress--I didn't mean to." "How would you like some jam rubbed on your cheeks, sir ?" said Mrs.
Norton, who could scarcely help laughing at poor Katie's appearance when nurse handed the doll to her.

"Suppose you leave Milly's dolls alone for the future; but cheer up, Milly! I think I can make Katie very nearly right again.

Come upstairs to my room and we'll try." After a good deal of sponging and rubbing, and careful drying by the kitchen fire, Katie came very nearly right again, and then Mrs.Norton tried whether some lessons would drive the rain out of the children's heads.

But the lessons did not go well.

It was all Milly could do to help crying every time she got a figure wrong in her sum, and Olly took about ten minutes to read two lines of his reading-book.